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Abbott Diabetes Care sponsors continuing
medical educational events for healthcare professionals across the
country. You can register for upcoming sessions here, or watch archived
webinar recordings at any time, from anywhere. These Abbott Diabetes
Care events are presented by esteemed professionals in the world of
healthcare and research, and managed by Whitehat Communications to
ensure a professional environment. All programs are free, and offer PACE®
Continuing Education Credits for up to six months after the live event.
Be sure to check back often for new event postings. |
Recognizing Hazards and Improving Patient Safety in
Blood Glucose Testing
Live Event: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern
PACE® Credit available until July 13, 2016 | Florida Laboratory Credit available for live session |
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Point of care glucose testing is on the rise. CDC estimates that
there are 25.8 million diabetics in the United States alone.
Safety issues in glucose testing quickly become a major public
health issue. Outbreaks of hepatitis B have occurred with
increasing frequency in the U.S. according to CDC data, and
nearly 90% are associated with the glucose testing practice.
With the expansion of handheld point of care testing devices
beyond glucose meters to other types of routine testing, the
hazard to patients is increasing in scope.
According to survey data, point of care testing personnel are
concerned about transmission of infection, but there is
confusion or a lack of knowledge about safe and appropriate use
of blood glucose monitoring and other point of care testing
equipment.
In this webinar, participants will learn how to reduce or
eliminate the risks of infectious transmission associated with
point of care testing in their institution.
Drs. Geaghan and Davis will present the latest clinical data and
demonstrate best practices using CDC and FDA guidance in hand
hygiene, meter disinfection and storage, restriction of
multi-use finger stick devices, and consideration of single-use
strategies for diabetic supplies and equipment.
This session will:
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Identify practices that pose risk to
patient safety today, such as cross-contamination
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Compare and contrast risks in self-monitoring of blood glucose
versus assisted monitoring
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Describe how hepatitis B and other pathogens can be transmitted
from patient to patient through point of care equipment used in
health care facilities and current FDA and CDC guidance
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Design best practices for safety in point of care testing
through a variety of illustrations
This webinar has been made possible through an educational grant
from Abbott Diabetes Care.
Download the synopsis of Dr. Davis' study on the prevalence of
MRSA on glucose test strips and vials here. |
Presenter:
Sharon Geaghan, MD
Associate Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics
Presenter:
Thomas E. Davis, MD, PhD
Culbertson Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
Department of Pathology
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Blood Glucose Monitoring: Core Practices Across all
Healthcare Settings
Live Event: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:00 -
2:00 PM Eastern
PACE® Credit available until April
21, 2015 | Florida Laboratory Credit available for live session |
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Despite ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of infection
during blood glucose monitoring practice, hospitals continue to
experience difficult challenges. As a result, the transmission
of dangerous blood borne, staph, C. difficile and other
pathogens continue to pose significant risk to patients. A major
reason for this ongoing problem is the fact that healthcare
providers have often been unable to devise a plan to address all
of the steps involved in the blood glucose monitoring practice
to address risk, intervention, and expectations of the
practitioners.
Fortunately, the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices
Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has recently identified and
published a set of core practices of care in any healthcare
setting. It is expected that this document will become the
framework for evaluating a broad range of practices including
lab, nursing, and physicians and offer the knowledge and
competency skills necessary to minimize patient risks.
This webinar will review these core practices and, using
specific scenarios, demonstrate how the steps involved in blood
glucose monitoring are crucial applications of these core
practices. The webinar will also help to identify and mitigate
practice gaps in blood glucose monitoring that are likely to
introduce risks to patients, and explore practice-based
solutions to infection transmission during the full spectrum of
activities involved in blood glucose monitoring.
This session will:
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Review the the CDC’s recently released Healthcare Infection
Control Practices Advisory Committee’s Core Practices
• Analyze the basic element of
the CDC Core Practices for Infection Prevention that address
care provided in all settings
• Demonstrate how the steps
involved in blood glucose monitoring are crucial applications of
these core practices using specific scenarios.
• Explore practice-based
solutions to infection transmission during the full spectrum of
activities involved in blood glucose monitoring
This webinar has been made possible through an educational grant
from Abbott Diabetes Care.
The following whitepapers are available for further information
on preventing infection transmission:
Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient
Oncology Settings (CDC)
Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings (CDC)
Core Components for Infection Prevention and Control Programs
(World Health Organization)
To learn more from Abbott Diabetes Care about solutions
to reducing your risk of cross-contamination, click here |
Presenter:
Ruth M. Carrico, PhD RN FSHEA CIC
Associate Professor
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Dr. Carrico is an Associate Professor with the University of
Louisville School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases,
and Associate Faculty with the Center for Health Hazards
Preparedness in the School of Public Health and Information
Sciences. Dr. Carrico has received training specific for
healthcare epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) in conjunction with the Rollins School of
Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta and the Society for
Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
In 2011, Dr. Carrico was appointed by Secretary Sebelius to the
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
(HICPAC) for a three year term and was also selected as a Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow for the 2011-2014
cohort. In 2012, she was presented with the Carole DeMille
Achievement Award by APIC. In 2013, Dr. Carrico was appointed to
the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases as the Board’s
Nurse Planner. |
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Preventing Infection Transmission: Moving Toward Ideal
Practice
Live Event: Tuesday, April 22, 2014
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
PACE® Credit available until October
21, 2014 | Florida Laboratory Credit available for live session
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Ensuring
competent infection prevention and control practice by all
healthcare personnel across the healthcare continuum continues
to be a challenge, particularly during blood glucose monitoring.
In spite of efforts to recognize the contamination
risks to the caregiver and patients, to prevent the reuse of any
device that may be shared and therefore pose a transmission risk
to others, and to embrace the use of safety devices and personal
protective equipment by caregivers, reports of blood borne
pathogen transmission persist. Ultimately, ongoing evaluation of
the entire blood glucose monitoring process continues.
Scrutiny of the process has yielded additional concerns
regarding the use of blood glucose monitoring test strips and
their potential role in bloodborne pathogen transmission.
Anecdotal reports have identified blood on test strip bottles
indicating infection prevention failure by healthcare personnel.
And worse, pathogens have been identified inside the test strip
bottles that also point to infection prevention and control
failures. With the increasing rate of childhood, adolescent, and
adult onset diabetes, this contamination risk is likely to
increase as well.
Poor or inadequate infection prevention and control practice
during performance of blood glucose monitoring is a high impact
and high consequence gap in practice. This gap has the potential
to harm patients, healthcare personnel, the healthcare
organization, and the community from both health and financial
perspectives. Addressing this impact requires that healthcare
facilities not only incorporate recognized educational
techniques, but encourage “ideal practice” methods by all
caregivers involved in glucose testing.
This session will:
• Review the steps in blood glucose monitoring focusing
on those that represent risk and contamination prevention
opportunities
• Outline core infection
prevention and control practices that are key to the safe blood
glucose monitoring process
• Identify practice questions
where data are limited or unknown
• Explore solutions that bring
existing practice close to ideal practice
This webinar has been made possible through an educational grant
from Abbott Diabetes Care.
The following whitepapers are available for further information
on preventing infection transmission:
AJIC - Bacterial Cross Contamination of Glucose Test Strips
Dr Nichols Estimated Strip Wastage
Prevalence of Bacterial Contamination of Glucose Test Strips
Ron NG Multicenter evaluation of bacterial contamination of
glucose
To learn about solutions to preventing infection
transmission from Abbott Diabetes Care, click here |
Presenter:
Ruth M. Carrico, PhD RN FSHEA CIC
Associate Professor
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Dr. Carrico is an Associate Professor with the University of
Louisville School Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and
Associate Faculty with the Center for Health Hazards
Preparedness in the School of Public Health and Information
Sciences. Dr. Carrico has received training specific for
healthcare epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) in conjunction with the Rollins School of
Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta and the Society for
Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
In 2011, Dr. Carrico was appointed by Secretary Sebelius to the
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
(HICPAC) for a three year term and was also selected as a Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow for the 2011-2014
cohort. In 2012, she was presented with the Carole DeMille
Achievement Award by APIC. In 2013, Dr. Carrico was appointed to
the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases as the Board’s
Nurse Planner. |
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The Keys to Evidence-Based
Infection Prevention in the Healthcare Setting
Live Event: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 1:00 PM -
2:00 PM Eastern
This is an encore presentation
of the highly rated October 22nd session
PACE®
Credit available until May 4, 2014 | Florida Laboratory
Credit available for live session only |
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Each year, 1.7 million healthcare acquired infections in the US
result in $20 billion in preventable costs. Superbugs are
overtaking intensive care units with no new antimicrobials on
the horizon. To eliminate the transmission and proliferation of
these organisms, many facilities are now mandated to state
report infection rates and to promote the appropriate use of
antimicrobials through antimicrobial stewardship. This webinar
will provide creative, evidence based, cost-effective, and
practical strategies that meet the spirit of regulatory agency
oversight to prevent healthcare associated infections.
Conventional practices will be questioned to ultimately improve
patient outcomes and prevent wasted dollars while creating a
forum that promotes confidence and empowers healthcare
professionals to be open-minded, intellectually nimble and
capable of assimilating new infection prevention ideas into the
fabric of their organization. These ideas will be based on the
latest information and research available in the healthcare
setting and will facilitate the creation of a safer world
through prevention of infection.
This session will:
• Analyze the principles,
practices and regulations associated with infection prevention
in a health care setting
• Explore the route of infection
in the health care setting from its source to the susceptible
host
• Discuss the evidence based
methods to break the chain of infection and prevent transmission
in the health care setting
• Clarify the role of point of
care instrument disinfection to prevent the spread of infection
• Develop creative strategies to
adapt infection prevention processes to a variety of settings
This webinar has been made possible through an educational grant
from Abbott Diabetes Care.
To learn about solutions to infection prevention in the
healthcare setting from Abbott Diabetes Care, click here |
Presenter:
Marianne Pavia, MT(ASCP),
CLS, CIC
Director of Infection Prevention
Employee Health and Laboratory Services
St. Mary's Hospital
Marianne presented her successes in infection prevention at APIC
National, The National Association of Children's Hospitals and
Related Institutes, and several long term care conferences
throughout the state of NY.
Marianne won the APIC 2012 Leadership
Award and received her Masters of Science in Human Service
Leadership from St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, NY. |
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Cross-Contamination Risks at the Point of
Care: Can They be Controlled?
Live Event: April 27, 2012 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
PACE Credit available until October 26, 2012 |
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According to CDC, healthcare associated
infections cost between $35 - 45 billion in 2007, and result in
significantly longer hospital stays.A major contributor to these
infections is cross-contamination which occurs when healthcare providers
transport objects contaminated with pathogens from one patient room to
another. These objects can be personal belongings or medical devices
such as those used for assisted glucose monitoring.
This session will examine cross-contamination from assisted glucose
monitoring in healthcare facilities, with specific discussion of current
best practice, along with the steps taken by the FDA and CDC to reduce
its occurrence. This presentation will look at cross-contamination of
the patient environment by the point of care provider from the
perspective of likelihood, costs and potential vectors. The
opportunities for hospital acquired infections can be reduced, and
several general approaches to their control will be discussed.
This session will:
• Discuss cross-contamination as a threat in the managed healthcare
setting • Describe measures that can be taken to reduce cross-contamination • Apply these measures in assisted glucose monitoring procedures for
compliance and patient safety
To learn about cross-contamination solutions from Abbott
Diabetes Care, click here.
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Presenter:
Scott Sutton, PhD
The Microbiology Network
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Additional Educational Resources
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group webinars, which are produced by Whitehat Communications and free
to the point of care and laboratory community. You can register for the
2014 sessions and view the recorded sessions by visiting: 2014 Point of Care group webinars
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