Understanding of the role of rapid and syndromic diagnostics, both within the laboratory and translation of results to the patient pathway for the treatment of pneumonia.

TOPICS COVERED

• Introduction and objectives
• Classification of pneumonia: the burden and the cost
• Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia
•  Antibiotic de-escalation (strategies) in HAP and VAP patients
• Secondary bacterial pneumonia in COVID19 patients

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Healthcare Professionals

SPEAKERS

• Dr Dan Wootton, Senior Fellow in Infection and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician, Aintree University Hospital  
• Dr Kay Roy, Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine, UCH
• Professor David Livermore, University East Anglia

• Professor Jan De Waele, intensivist Ghent University Hospital (Belgium) & Chair, Research Committee for ESICM 

For more information, please contact Esme Carruthers, Event Manager, BSAC [email protected].