Revamping Pneumonia Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Stewardship With Advanced Molecular Diagnostics

See the post-webinar video. Available until 31 October 2022.

Wednesday 19 July 2022
18:00-19:30 SGT (GMT+8)

An educational initiative supported by bioMérieux

This webinar presents the latest clinical practices of infectious disease management topics followed by an open discussion for healthcare professionals across the Asia-Pacific for medical educational purpose. This episode will demonstrate real-world case presentations by international physicians speaking about their experiences of patient management and value-based diagnostic stewardship.

What You Will Learn:

• Latest evolution of diagnostic practices with clinical cases of non-ICU Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia and COVID-19 Pneumonia.
  • Case 1: Prescribing antibiotics for every CAP?
  • Case 2: Treating older patients of multiple comorbidities, including COPD
  • Case 3: When vancomycin/piperacillin-tazobactam is not enough
  • Case 4: COVID-19 and VAP
• The implementation of new, rapid, multiplex PCR diagnostics and care of pneumonia patients, helping medical practitioners feel less stressful and more confident in managing patients suspected of lower respiratory tract infections during the pandemic.

Main speaker: Dr Tufik Assad
Medical Director of Critical Care Unit, Williamson Medical Center, USA

Moderator: Dr David CL Lam
APSR President, Hong Kong

Chair: Dr Yuanlin Song
APSR Respiratory Infections (non-TB) Assembly Head, China

Sponsor: Dr Nick Chia
Vice President of Medical Affairs, bioMérieux

Post-webinar video

apsresp.org/archive/webinar/20220719.php

Registration and all other details are on the webinar's site: webinar.apsr.info.