Past Event Detail:

Event Title: Culture of Sputum, Throat, & Other Respiratory Specimens

Event Type: Clinical

Event Date: 02/11/2009

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Presentors:

• Carol Spiegel, MT(ASCP), Ph.D., D(ABMM), Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory for the UW Hospitals and Clinics

Description:

The speaker will discuss the culture of sputum, throat and other respiratory specimens including: (a.) reading, interpreting and reporting of the primary gram stain (b.) culture set-up and incubation (c.) work-up of the culture (d.) the final report.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is co-sponsored by ASCLS-WI which is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

As part of the new P.A.C.E. continuing education process, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site to print your P.A.C.E. certificates. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the teleconference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this teleconference is February 11, 2010.

Materials:

Webcast (Windows Media, 20 Kbps)

Powerpoint Presentation (1.62 MB)

Presentation Handout (PDF, 1.54 MB)

WSLH Evaluation Form (Word DOC, 51 KB)

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