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ForwardLive Webinar - Empowering Antibiotic Stewardship: Understanding the Use of Procalcitonin
Webinar Description
This webinar will reinforce better antibiotic use and provide strategies to better utilize the biomarker procalcitonin in the most advantageous methods compared to non-specific biomarkers IL-1, IL-6, TNF, leukocytosis, and lactate. The pathophysiology and kinetics will be reviewed, and applied in case studies to demonstrate best use guidelines. Finally, clinical and financial outcomes will be presented so the attendee can appreciate expected benefits of the application of procalcitonin concepts.
Target Audience
Nurses, physician assistants, physicians, emergency responders, physical therapists, patient care assistants, and other healthcare staff
Learning Objectives
At the end of the webinar, the learner should be able to:
- Restate the pathophysiology and kinetics of procalcitonin.
- Identify current biomarkers used in the management of sepsis in bacterial infection.
- Describe how procalcitonin can aid in severity assessment and evaluation of therapy choices.
- Restate the role of procalcitonin in antibiotic stewardship.
- Describe the expected clinical and health economic outcomes of PCT guided therapy.
Sepsis Alliance gratefully acknowledges the support provided for this Sepsis: Across the Continuum of Care webinar series by bioMérieux, Inc.
Mike Broyles, PharmD
Director of Pharmacy and Laboratory Services, St. Bernard's Five Rivers
Dr. Broyles earned his BSPharm from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and his PharmD from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with a primary focus of antibiotic stewardship since 1992. Dr. Broyles has been the Pharmacy Advisory Chairman for Community Health Systems for 18 years, establishing clinical initiatives for the organization. He provides consulting for bioMérieux, Inc., Roche Diagnostics, Abbott Diagnostics, Fujirebio, and ThermoFisher on PCT aided guidance for antibiotic use stewardship programs, as well as for more than 24 IDN’s on stewardship topics. Dr. Broyle has more than nine years’ experience using, researching, and publishing on stewardship and the use of PCT to improve stewardship activities. He has also assisted in development of stewardship software products for pharmacy and hospitals, including: TheraTrac, TheraTrac 2, TheraDoc, Stellara, ICNet, and ABX Alert for antimicrobial stewardship use in hospital ABS programs.
To Claim RN CE Contact Hours:
- Create an account on The Sepsis Institute.
- Attend the live webinar.
- During the live webinar, you will be given a password.
- Use the password to access the evaluation.
- We'll review the evaluation and notify you when you can download your statement of credit.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 1.2 contact hours, and 1.0 participation credits.
Other healthcare providers will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.0 contact hours.
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