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Pneumonia and Sepsis in Critical Care: Navigating a Complex Patient Diagnostic Workup - This program is supported by educational grant from bioMérieux

Symposium Moderator(s)

• MK

  Marin Kollef, MD

  Professor
  Washington Univ. School of Medicine, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.

Symposium Faculty(s)

• SK

  Seth Koenig

  Speaker's Bureau - Fuji SonoSite, Medscape
• DG

  Debra Goff, PharmD, FIDSA, FCCP

  Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio, United States

  Advisory Board - Opgen, CARBX; Grants - Merck and Pfizer

This session will help clinicians improve their awareness and adoption of syndromic panels to improve patient outcomes. Rapid diagnostic methodologies for pathogen identification represent a tremendous advancement over traditional culture-based methods because they enable physicians to quickly identify a causative pathogen and initiate antibiotics. This is especially critical in infections, such as sepsis and pneumonia, in which patient clinical outcomes are highly dependent on the time at which antibiotics are initiated.

This program is supported by an educational grant from bioMérieux.