Training purpose selection is required.
Training plan selection is required.
Participants who complete this course will receive 1.0 P.A.C.E. Contact Hours. To receive P.A.C.E. Contact Hours you will need to register and complete the evaluation at the end of the training.
bioMérieux Inc. is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
Instructions:
This course is divided into two sections, which must be completed in sequence.
- Course Content with Knowledge Assessment
- Course evaluation (Survey)
Overview:
This course is designed to educate on the pharmacokinetics of procalcitonin, which is a marker of sepsis and bacterial infection.
Objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Discuss the role of pct for acute presentation in the emergency dept. of upper respiratory infections and sepsis
- Explain appropriate use of pct and how to interpret pct levels in the emergency department
- Identify the value of the positive predictive value in the Emergency Department as well as the negative predictive value in the undifferentiated patient
Speaker:
Daniel Feinstein MD, FACP
Medical Director of Critical Care at Kernersville and Thomasville Medical Center, Lexington NC.
Developed by: bioMérieux Learning and Development Department
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
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