Procalcitonin, Antibiotics, and You! How this Biomarker can be Applied to Clinical Practice
Faculty:
Lyle Pratt, Pharm.D
PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident
Memorial Medical Center
Springfield, IL
Schedule:
5:00 pm - Registration
6:00 pm - Program
7:00 pm - Dinner (on your own)
Registration:
Please register below. Registration deadline is Thursday, December 10th.
There is no fee for ICHP members to attend this activity. Non-members will be charged $20 at the time of registration. Participants will be required to sign in at the start of the program.
Location:
Fire and Ale
135 Illini Blvd
Sherman, IL 62684
Please register for this event so that the appropriate number of wait staff will be present.Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this knowledge-based continuing pharmacy education activity, pharmacist participants should be able to:
1. Identify the effects of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing and the challenges associated with changing these practices.
2. Describe the physiology of procalcitonin production during an infection and list differences with other biomarkers.
3. Outline the ways in which procalcitonin can guide antibiotic therapy decisions.
At the conclusion of this knowledge-based continuing pharmacy education activity, pharmacy technician participants should be able to:
1. Identify the effects of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing and the challenges associated with changing these practices.
2. Recognize an elevated procalcitonin level and the implications it has.
3. List the types of infections in which procalcitonin can be used to guide therapy.
Accreditation:
ACPE # 0121-0000-15-054-L01-P & 0121-0000-15-054-L01-T
1.0 Contact Hour (0.1 CEU) Type of Activity: Knowledge
The Illinois Council of Health System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity provides 1 hour (0.1 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit (ACPE Activity # 0121-0000-15-054-L01-P & 0121-0000-15-054-L01-T).
Attendees must complete a program evaluation and CPE submission online at
www.CESally.com. After successful CPE submission to CPE Monitor, attendees may print their statements of continuing pharmacy education credit at
www.NABP.net.
Target Audience: This knowledge-based activity was developed for Health-System Pharmacists.
Pharmacy Technicians may attend Pharmacist (P-specific) programs for credit through 2014. However PTCB is changing their continuing pharmacy education requirements in 2015. Beginning in 2015, PTCB will require CPhTs to submit 20 hours of pharmacy technician-specific (‘T-specific’) continuing pharmacy education (CPE) to qualify for recertification. Pharmacy technicians will no long be able to use Pharmacist only or P-specific CPE. In addition, PTCB will reduce the number of allowable CPE hours earned through in-service training from 10 to 5. Please advise all pharmacy technicians at your site of this pending change. As an ACPE accredited provider, ICHP will continue to include Technician specific programming in most if not all of our CPE programming.
CPE Monitor: When registering for this program, you will be required to provide your NABP eProfile ID# and Birthday (MMDD) when registering for this meeting. Beginning in 2013, this information will be required by any participants seeking CPE credit.
Visit www.ichpnet.org/cpemonitor/ for information about CPE Monitor and how to obtain your NABP ID. 
