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Podcast: Decera Clinical Education Infectious Disease Podcast
Episode: Syndromic Testing Podcast: Respiratory Infections
Description: Listen in as Michael Satlin, MD, MS, FIDSA,explores rapid syndromic testing for bloodstream infections and discusses how to apply best practices for diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship in syndromic testing.Topics covered include:Types of upper and lower respiratory infection panelsConsiderations for when to use respiratory syndromic testingHow to use syndromic testing to guide both therapy escalation and de-escalationHow syndromic testing fits in with traditional testing methods, such as culture, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, Gram stain, and BAL cell count Presenter:Michael Satlin, MD, MS, FIDSAAssociate Professor of Medicine and Pathology and L...