Infectious disease webinars to aid your work
Discover the latest tools and techniques to expand your infectious disease work with expert-led presentations on cycle threshold values, sepsis identification, and much more
8 May 2023
SelectScience® hosts dozens of informative free webinars for scientists every month, featuring world-class speakers at the very forefront of their respective fields. In this week’s feature, we will be focusing on webinars that may especially interest those working in the field of infectious diseases. If you wish to stay up to date, you won't want to miss these infectious disease webinars taking place over the next few weeks. In addition, we will also highlight some of our top on-demand webinars.
This week, discover how diagnostic stewardship can improve clinical outcomes, explore the role of cycle threshold values in infectious disease diagnostics, and learn about the role of lactate in early sepsis identification.
From basement to bedside: Leveraging laboratory expertise to improve clinical outcomes through diagnostic stewardship
Despite the critical role diagnostic stewardship practices can play in antimicrobial management, it remains a discipline not well understood or appreciated as a driver for improving patient outcomes. In this SelectScience webinar, diagnostic stewardship will be defined, a framework for stewardship programs will be presented, and intervention techniques and impacts will be described. Additionally, we will explore potential reasons why diagnostic stewardship is only recently garnering attention as a clinically impactful practice and how a stronger relationship between the laboratory and other healthcare specialties can continue the momentum going forward.
Friday, May 26, at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EST / 08:00 PST
New on-demand webinar: The role of cycle threshold values in infectious disease diagnostics
Results from molecular diagnostic tests are usually reported as positive or negative for a pathogen target. However, this approach does not acknowledge the full benefits that these assays have to offer. Real-time PCR (RT-PCR) tests can provide cycle threshold (Ct) values. Ct values may provide an additional layer of information for diagnostics. During this webinar, Dr. Anooj Shah will outline the many considerations that need to be made when using Ct values as a surrogate for pathogen load in a laboratory setting.
New on-demand webinar: The role of lactate in early sepsis identification: Experiences from intensive care
Lactate measurements are essential in the assessment of critically ill patients. Results need to be obtained quickly and sequentially to best assess the patient. Adhering to hospital protocol for surviving sepsis guidelines helps to reinforce the message that the primary focus of early sepsis identification is initiation of timely treatment in the critically ill patient. This webinar will review the importance of lactate measurement and the clinical implications of an increased blood lactate level in the context of sepsis. The role of lactate in the risk assessment of patient morbidity and mortality will be presented. Plus, the advantages of obtaining a point of care lactate result versus traditional laboratory analysis will be reviewed.
Watch all our infectious disease webinars at a time that suits you
Missed one of our webinars? Fortunately, all SelectScience webinars are made available on demand after the live event. Catch up on some of our latest webinars below:
Clinical metagenomic sequencing for diagnosis of infections, wastewater surveillance, and outbreak investigation
What can T-cell studies teach us about SARS-CoV-2 immune responses?
The role of interferon-expressing neutrophils in COVID-19 pathogenesis
Antibiotic prescribing dilemmas in the face of increasing resistance: How do diagnostics help?
Markers for COVID-19 disease progression: Comprehensive LC-MS characterization of the metabolome with the Xevo G3 QTof
TST or IGRA in healthcare workers: The when and the why
Integrating testing for life-threatening respiratory viruses: Why performance matters
Microbial air monitoring facilitates disease surveillance and outbreak response
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