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Hosted by the Arkansas Antimicrobial Stewardship Foundation and the Arkansas Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Presented by: Dusten Rose, PharmD Session Title: Speeding Toward Stewardship: Leveraging Rapid Diagnostics for Optimized Antimicrobial Utilization and Patient Outcomes At the end of the session, the participant will be able to: Describe current technologies that rapidly identify common pathogens, antimicrobial resistance markers of importance, and phenotypic re

Hosted by the Arkansas Antimicrobial Stewardship Foundation and the Arkansas Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Presented by: Jared Heiles, PharmD This session provides a detailed overview of common gram negative and gram positive resistance mechanisms, local epidemiology, and available laboratory technology to guide antibiotic therapy. At the end of the session, the participant will be able to: Recognize common bacterial resistance mechanisms. Describe local antibiotic

Hosted by the Arkansas Antimicrobial Stewardship Foundation and the Arkansas Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Presented by: Bailey Mosher, PhD Description: This session will highlight the key components of effective microbiology lab reports, enhance result interpretation from commonly reported laboratory assays, and emphasize how to distinguish colonization from infection to help laboratory professionals, pharmacists, and physicians collaborate to utilize microbiology

Hosted by the Arkansas Antimicrobial Stewardship Foundation and the Arkansas Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Presented by Matt...

We've been sharing some basic antibiotic and stewardship facts on social media. Here are some. Feel free to spread them around to your students or peers! Sharing information is the only kind of viral spread we like.

There is a little controversy with this one. The guideline does go into more details about who would benefit most from corticosteroids...

I've summarized the new cUTI IDSA guidelines (they came out on July 17. A new CAP guideline came out then too but there's some IDSA/ATS...

We aren’t associated with ImmunizeAR, but I wanted to shout out a fellow non-profit group trying to make Arkansas healthier.  They are...

Do you want to help us get some of the best people in ID to speak at the 2026 summit? We’re looking for people to join our speaker...

We want to expand our outreach from the Summit to other parts of the state to further stewardship efforts. If you'd be interested in...

UAMS recently highlighted one of our own: Shanda Ferguson, Pharm.D. Dr. Ferguson is currently pursuing a Master of Health Administration...

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Animals, including our pets and livestock, can carry germs that can spread and contribute to #AntimicrobialResistance  (AR). Here are...

Bacteria help each other out! Let's do the same. Exposure to antibiotics is a leading risk for antimicrobial resistance, and much of our...

I'm sure those of us in any kind of healthcare have answered the same question 20 times this week: how does E. coli get into carrots? I...

Hot off the presses: Governor Sanders declared November 18-24, 2024 as Antibiotic Awareness Week in Arkansas. On average, 1.02 antibiotic...

This year's theme to USA Antibiotics Awareness week is "Takes All Of Us" and it focuses on a One Health approach. Antibiotic resistance...

Each year in the United States, at least 2.8 million people are infected with antibiotic-resistant germs—at least 35,000 die. Five of the...

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