41 - Hot Topics in Pediatric Infection Prevention

Speaker(s)

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  Lori Handy, MD MSCE

  Associate Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control
  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  Haverford, Pennsylvania

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Aaron Milstone, MD, MHS

  Professor
  Pediatrics
  Johns Hopkins
  Baltimore, Maryland

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Amanda Ullman, RN PhD

  Associate Professor and NHMRC Fellow
  Griffith University, Australia

  Disclosure: Becton Dickinson () : Grant/Research Support

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit

No CPE Credits

Learning Objectives:

• implement strategies to reduce transmission of respiratory viral infections in pediatric ambulatory settings
• review decolonization regimens that may reduce healthcare-associated infection in children
• identify best practices to improve vascular access outcomes in pediatrics

Presentations:

• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Decolonization Strategies for Pediatric Patients
  Aaron Milstone, MD, MHS – Johns Hopkins
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Minimagic: Optimizing Vascular Access for Kids
  Amanda Ullman, RN PhD – Griffith University
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Preventing Respiratory Virus Transmission in Pediatric Ambulatory Settings
  Lori K. Handy, MD MSCE – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia