Precision Education: A conceptual model for Medicine

This webinar will address these and other critical questions and will pave the way to strategic planning for compliance with the EU MDR. New product development teams will discover that the timeline for MDR is extremely limited compared to existing products on the market. Post-market surveillance teams will discover the implications of the Post-Market Clinical Follow-up requirement and the European Database on Medical Devices.

Current diagnostic methods for lower respiratory specimens typically take one to two days to identify most bacterial pathogens. During that time, clinicians must rely on guideline recommendations and clinical diagnosis to guide empiric therapy, which is not optimized based on the patient’s individual pathogen. The BioFire Pneumonia Panel will provide pathogen identification in a much shorter timeframe and may allow clinicians to optimize targeted pathogen-specific therapy sooner. The BioFire Pneumonia Panel is a rapid multiplex-PCR test that identifies 33 targets, including 18 bacteria, 8 viruses and 7 antimicrobial resistance genes from lower respiratory tract specimens in about an hour. It provides semi-quantitative results (in copies/ml) for 15 of the bacterial targets. This new feature provided by multiplex-PCR testing may help clinicians and laboratorians separate colonizing from pathogenic levels of bacteria.

The mechanism of headspace SPME will be explained in detail. Methods for enhancing extraction efficiency will be described. Advantages of headspace SPME over other common extraction methods will be highlighted.

Now in its second year, this online symposium will provide those working within academia and pharmaceutical development the opportunity to hear from experts within the field.