Clinical Core

Updates on Infectious Disease Guidelines in Critical Care

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Michael Kavanaugh, MD,

  Internal Medicine Program Director
  Navy Medicine Professsional Development Center
  Portsmouth, VA

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

In recent years, multiple updates have been published to guidelines on the management of serious infections often treated in the ICU. Implementation of these guidelines may be complicated by issues of cost, uncertain benefit of certain interventions in critically ill patients, and emerging new data. This session will review the current state of key guidelines for serious infections, identifying evidence gaps and barriers to implementation and ways to improve guideline adherence.

Presentations:

• Clostridioides difficile Guidelines
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Ramzy Rimawi, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
• HAP and VAP in 2023
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Scott Micek, BCPS, PharmD, BCCCP – St. Louis College of Pharmacy
• Endocarditis and Cardiovascular Infections
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Megan H. Hicks, MD, – n/a
• Invasive Candidiasis
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Oleg Epelbaum, MD – Westchester Medical Center
• Healthcare-Associated Meningitis and Ventriculitis
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Sarah Norton, AGACNP-BC, MSN, – Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista