Rapid diagnostics & biomarkers at the heart of patient management

Provision of medicine is transforming due to the amount of research and development in novel diagnostics and technologies. In this webinar, ISAC’s Rapid Diagnostics & Biomarkers Working Group provided a number of short presentations on how rapid and novel diagnostics and technologies and their application can impact clinical practice and the provision of microbiology, infectious disease, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control services. 00:00 Start 02:03 Role of PCT in COVID-19 Patients - Eric Howard Gluck 19:42 Rapid pneumonia diagnostics in the molecular age: results from the SARIPOC trial - Stephen Poole 35:39 Is proinflammatory biomarker ProADM helpful for risk stratification in COVID-19 patients? - Philipp Schutz 50:28 QiaSTAT and patient safety: experiences with a rapid PCR system - Peter Laszlo Kanizsai 1:04:11 Rapid biomarkers in community setting to improve antibiotic use - Heiman Wertheim Disclaimer The webinars / lectures provided by the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) are for informational purposes only. No material contained herein is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or national / local guidelines. The opinions expressed in a webinar are those of the author(s) only and may not necessarily represent the views of ISAC. Where links are provided to other sites and resources of third parties, these links are provided for your information only. ISAC neither endorses not accepts responsibility for the contents of those sites or resources. Speakers Kordo Saeed is a consultant clinical microbiologist currently working at the Department of Infection, at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust & an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Medicine. Eric Howard Gluck is a Professor of Medicine, and the Chief Academi Officer of Swedish Hospital, a part of Northshore in Chicago USA. He is the Director of the Critical Care Fellowship at Swedish Hospital. Peter Laszlo Kanizsai is currently Head of University Emergency Department as an associate professor at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Stephen Poole is an NIHR Biomedical Research Centre funded Clinical Fellow working in Southampton, UK. Philipp Schuetz is head of the medical and emergency department at the Medical University department in the Kantonsspital Aarau. Heiman Wertheim is a Professor in Clinical Microbiology and heads the Clinical Microbiology Department at Radboud University Medical Center and is chair of the Radboud Center of Infectious Diseases (RCI).