Pediatric Lab Puzzles: Approaches to Challenges From Ordering to Collections to Result Interpretation

This webinar was recorded live on July 18, 2024.
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Description

Pediatric lab medicine has many unique challenges that impact patient care, including specimen ordering, collection, and result interpretation.

In this webinar, Dr. Dickerson will discuss common challenges in pediatric lab medicine, framed by common questions asked to laboratory professionals by care providers and share case examples to illustrate approaches to these challenges. These include 1) difficult collections; 2) pediatric reference interval validation techniques; and 3) optimizing laboratory stewardship for this population.

Target audience

This activity is designed for physicians, lab supervisors, lab directors (and/or assistant directors), lab managers (supervisory and/or non-supervisory), medical technologists, Point-of-Care coordinators, pathologists, Fellows, Residents, In-training individuals, child life specialists, executives of hospitals (CMO, CNO), nurses, pharmacists, phlebotomists, EMTs, medical technicians, and other laboratory professionals overseeing/conducting within this topic.

Learning objectives

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify two approaches to support difficult pediatric collections.
• Examine options for verifying reference intervals in a pediatric population.
• Discuss strategies for effective pediatric lab stewardship techniques.

Faculty

Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC
Division Head, Laboratory Medicine
Seattle Children's Hospital
Associate Professor, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Disclosures and statement of independence

The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) is dedicated to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all educational activities. All participating planning committee members and faculty are required to disclose to the program audience any financial relationships related to the subject matter of this program. Disclosure information is reviewed in advance in order to manage and resolve any possible conflicts of interest. The intent of this disclosure is to provide participants with information on which they can make their own judgments.

The following faculty reported financial relationships:

• Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC
  
  • Consultant Fee: BD

Content validity

All recommendations involving clinical medicine are based on evidence accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients; AND/OR all scientific research referred to or reported in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.

Accreditation statement

This activity is approved for 1.0 ACCENT® continuing education credits. Activity ID #4315. This activity was planned in accordance with ACCENT® Standards and Policies.

Successful completion statement

Verification of Participation certificates are provided to registered participants based on completion of the activity, in its entirety, and the activity evaluation. For questions regarding continuing education, please email [email protected].