Tuesday 8th May 2018
10:00 Meet-the-Expert sessions
A. Frequently asked questions and troubleshooting in AST (Erika Matuschek, Jenny Åhman)
B. Selective reporting as a tool for antimicrobial stewardship (Tinna Åhren, Gunnar Jacobsson)
C. What to do when there are no breakpoints (Christian Giske, Gunnar Kahlmeter)
Session 1 - Chair: Dagfinn Skaare
11:15 Welcome and presentation of NordicAST (Dagfinn Skaare)
Practical issues (Anne-Mari Rissanen, Lise Hulloen-Orø)
Introduction to Mentimeter (Annika)
11:30 Keynote lecture: Use of NGS for susceptibility testing (Henrik Hasman)
Session 2 - Chair: Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava
13:30 Evaluation of phenotypic methods to detect low level vancomycin MIC in vanB positive E. faecium/E. faecalis * (Bjørg Haldorsen)
13:50 How to deal with organisms that don’t behave? (Erika Matuschek)
14:00 The Area of Technical Uncertainty - how to deal with difficult in-between results of AST (Gunnar Kahlmeter)
14:40 Rapid AST from blood cultures, what is really possible? (Gunnar Kahlmeter)
15:00 NordicAST RAST Study (Anna Åkerlund)
Session 3 - Chair: Anna-Karin Smekal
16:00 Can mecillinam breakpoints be established for Enterobacterales beyond E. coli and Klebsiella? The Danish Study (Barbara Holzknecht)
16:30 Colistin AST: are there alternatives to broth microdilution? (Gunnar Kahlmeter)
17:00 Carbapenem resistance in Enterobacterales: impact of new screening cutoff (Ørjan Samuelsen)
Wednesday 9th May
Session 4 - Chair: Annika Wistedt
8:30 The new beta-lactam + beta-lactamase inhibitors: when and how to test? (Christian Giske and Erika Matuschek)
9:10 Vancomycin-variable enterococci: a clinical problem? * (Barbara Holzknecht)
9:30 Pitfalls in routine broth microdilution (Jenny Åhman)
10:00 Screening for beta-lactam resistance in Haemophilus influenzae (Erika Matuschek)
10:45 Keynote lecture: Susceptibility testing of mycobacteria (Thomas Schön)
11:40 Keynote lecture: Susceptibility testing of yeast in the clinical laboratory (Erja Chryssanthou)
Session 5 - Chair: Barbara Holzknecht
13:15 What is going on in EUCAST Development Laboratory (EDL)? (Erika Matuschek and Jenny Åhman)
14:00 Disk diffusion method for anaerobes (Ulrik Justesen)
14:30 NordicAST Bacteroides study (Dagfinn Skaare)
* Talk will not be available to view on the website
Workshop 2018
Registration
Register here. The workshop is being held May 8-9th at Hotell 11, Göteborg.
The registration deadline is April 4th. There is no maximum number of participants pr. laboratory or company. Confirmation is sent by email upon registration.
Hotel
Hotel rooms are NOT included in the conference payment. Hotel rooms are to be booked separately and paid directly to the hotel. Hotell 11 has rooms reserved at a special price until March 23rd. Single room 1286 SEK, double room 1365 SEK (per room per night).
Booking: Send your booking request to: q.11@choice.se.
They need the information below:
· Bookingcode: GR006042.
· First and last name.
· Checkin/ checkout date.
· Single/ double room.
· Phone number.
Further hotel information here.
Payment
Upon registration, you will receive an invoice. Before you register, make sure that you have information about invoice address, reference code/cost centre and an email address to the financial officer/invoice charge, as invoices will be sent as PDF files. Received payment is considered as final confirmation and must be done well in advance of the workshop.
Participation fee: Participants attending the workshop are categorized as laboratory personell or industry. The participation fee is 4600 SEK for the laboratory personell and 15000 SEK for the industry.
Program
This year's Workshop includes:
Meet the Experts (Parallel sessions)
· Frequently asked questions and troubleshooting in AST
· Selective reporting as a tool for antimicrobial stewardship
· What to do when there are no breakpoints
Keynote lectures:
· Use of NGS for susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory (Henrik Hasman)
· Susceptibility testing of mycobacteria (Thomas Schön)
· Susceptibility testing of yeast in the clinical laboratory (Erja Chryssanthou)
Other highlights:
· NordicAST RAST Study (Anna Åkerlund)
· The Area of Technical Uncertainty - how to deal with difficult in-between results of AST (Gunnar Kahlmeter)
· Screening for carbapenem resistance: What is new? (Orjan Samuelsen)
· Disk diffusion method for anaerobes (Ulrik Justesen)
The preliminary program can be viewed here.
Poster presentations and case reports or short oral presentations can be registered with Erika Matuschek until April 9 th
Questions regarding payment for the workshop
- please write to Ingvar Eliasson
Other questions regarding the workshop
- please write to Lise Hulløen-Orø