38 - Daily Dramas for the Practicing ID Clinician in Caring for the Elderly

Speaker(s)

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  Kalpana Gupta, MD MPH

  Professor
  Department of Medicine
  VA Boston HCS and Boston University School of Medicine
  West Roxbury, Massachusetts

  Disclosure: First Light Diagnostics : Consultant (Status: Ongoing); Glaxo Smith Kline : Consultant (Status: Ongoing); Qiagen : Consultant (Status: Terminated --- January 31, 2020); Spero Therapeutics : Consultant (Status: Ongoing); UpToDate : author (Status: Ongoing), Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing); Utility : Consultant (Status: Ongoing)
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  Manisha Juthani-Mehta, MD

  Associate Professor, ID Fellowship Program Director
  Infectious Disease
  Yale School of Medicine - Yale New Haven Hospital
  New Haven, Connecticut

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Sandra Nelson, MD

  Director, Musculoskeletal Infectious Disease and OPAT Programs
  Division of Infectious Diseases
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, Massachusetts

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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:

• apply recent asymptomatic bacteriuria guidelines to clinical cases
• develop useable and effective strategies to the management of wounds such as decubitus, especially in the elderly
• develop a balanced approach for treatment of infections and palliative care in end of life

Presentations:

• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Can I Ignore That Urine Culture? Managing Asymptomatic Bacteruria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Elderly
  Kalpana Gupta, MD MPH – VA Boston HCS and Boston University School of Medicine
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Decubitus Ulcers and Osteomyelitis: A Deeper Dive
  Sandra B. Nelson, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Palliative Care Approach for the ID Provider: First, Do No Harm
  Manisha Juthani-Mehta, MD – Yale School of Medicine - Yale New Haven Hospital