Challenges in Sepsis: Diagnostics and Patient Management

Presented By:
Dr. Patrick Murray, Ph.D.
Dr. Jordan Cardinal, PharmD, BCPS
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Patrick R. Murray received his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology at UCLA, postgraduate training in Clinical Microbiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, and was director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratories at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Washington University from 1976-1999. In 1999, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and in 2001, he accepted the position of Senior Scientist and Chief of Microbiology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In July 2011, he retired from the NIH and accepted a position at BD Diagnostics as Vice President, Worldwide Scientific Affairs where he served until his retirement in 2021. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Infectious Disease Society of America, member of the CLSI Consensus Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Standards, former Chairman of the American Board of Medical Microbiology, former Editor-in-Chief of the ASM Manual of Clinical Microbiology from 1990 to 2010, former Editor of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and currently serves on numerous editorial boards. He has authored more than 275 research articles and 20 books.

He is the recipient of numerous awards including the ASM Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology (1993), ASM Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology (2002), ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award (2010), and ABMM/ABMLI Professional Recognition Award (2011), as well as the Pasteur Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), NIH Clinical Center Director's Awards for Patient Care (2006) and Research (2010), and NIH Director's Award for Research (2007).

Webinar:
Challenges in Sepsis: Diagnostics and Patient Management

Webinar Abstract:
An estimated 49 million cases of sepsis occur globally each year with approximately 11 million deaths.1 Diagnostic tests, including cultures of the urinary tract, respiratory tract, and blood, are critical for guiding appropriate antibiotic therapy. This is particularly true for infections acquired in the hospital because many are caused by antimicrobial resistant bacteria. The success of blood cultures is dependent on collection of uncontaminated specimens, culture of a large volume of blood, and inoculation of multiple media types to maximize the recovery of most bloodstream pathogens. This lecture will review specific guidelines for specimen collection, selection of blood culture media, and the relationship between the volume of blood cultured and percent positive blood cultures, including the impact of prior exposure to antibiotics.

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