132 - Hot Topics in Long-Term Care Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention

Speaker(s)

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  Jon Furuno, PhD, FSHEA

  Interim Department Chair
  Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
  Portland, Oregon

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Mary Hayden, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA

  Director, Division of Infectious Diseases; Director, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Professor of Medicine and Pathology
  Rush University Medical Center
  Chicago, Illinois

  Disclosure: Clorox : Grant/Research Support (Status: Terminated --- 2018); Medline : Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Terminated --- 2019), Provided product at no charge to healthcare facilities for research projects on which I am Co_i (Status: Terminated --- 2019); Molnlycke : Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Terminated --- 2019), Provided product at no charge to healthcare facilities for research projects on which I am Co_i (Status: Terminated --- 2019); Sage/Stryker : Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Terminated --- 2019), Provided product at no charge to healthcare facilities for research projects on which I am Co_i (Status: Terminated --- 2019)
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  Mark Loeb, MD, MSc

  Professor
  McMaster University
  Hamilton, ON, Canada

  Disclosure: Sunovion Pharma : Advisor or Review Panel member (Status: Terminated --- December 1, 2019); WHO : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing)

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.75 Knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: 0221-9999-20-496-H04-P

Learning Objectives:

• consider opportunities to improve antimicrobial stewardship around transitions of care
• detail the reliability of non-localizing symptoms as indications of the infection in nursing home residents
• discuss efforts to recognize the presence and prevent transmission of Candida auris among nursing home residents

Presentations:

• 1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT

  Candida Auris in the Long-term Care Setting
  Mary K. Hayden, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA – Rush University Medical Center
• 1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT

  Hospital-initiated Antibiotics in Long-term Care Settings
  Jon P. Furuno, PhD, FSHEA – Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• 1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT

  Updating the Loeb Minimum Criteria for Antibiotic Initiation in Nursing Homes
  Mark Loeb, MD, MSc – McMaster University