Day 1, Tuesday 28th May
Session 1: Recent and future work for better antimicrobial susceptibility testing
(10:10-12:30) Chair: Iren Löhr
What are the most important tasks of NordicAST? (Iren Löhr)
Presentation of BMD Reading Guide (Erika Matuschek)
Rapid AST from blood culture (Emma Jonasson)
EUCAST Expert Rules (Sören Gatermann)
Session 2: Whole genome sequencing and tricky AST cases
(13:30-15:15) Chair: Robert Skov
What has happened since the EUCAST WGS paper came out? (Matt Ellington)
Use of WGS in an antimicrobial resistance reference lab (Arnfinn Sundsfjord)
Case presentations (Anna-Karin Smekal)
Session 3: Area of technical uncertainty - an old practice in new words?
Chairs: Annika Wistedt and Anna-Karin Smekal
15:45-16:45 Meet the Experts: How to handle ATUs (Gunnar Kahlmeter and Christian Giske)
-based on pre-distributed cases with links to documents on EUCAST website
16:45-17:00 EUCAST evaluation of 21 Mueller Hinton powders for disk diffusion testing - wide differences detected (Jenny Åhman)
17:00-17:30 ICARS - a new AMR centre on implementation research (Robert Skov)
Day 2, Wednesday 29th May
Session 4: New methods
(8:30-10:00) Chair: Anne-Mari Rissanen
Preliminary results of NordicAST Bacteroides Study (Tore Taksdal)
Lateral flow assays for carbapenemase detection (Ulrik Justesen)
Maldi-TOF for AST, a review (Åsa Johansson)
Session 5: Quality control
(10:30-12:15) Chair: Ulrik Justesen
Quality problems in AST (Jenny Åhman)
How are the Nordic labs performing in external quality assessment with AST & screening for multidrug-resistant bacteria?
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing UKNEQAS highlights (Annika Carlsson Wistedt)
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing EARS-Net highlights (Barbara Holzknecht)
- Screening for multiresistant organisms - MRSA, VRE, ESBL and Carbapenemases (Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava)
How are the results used for continuous quality improvements? (Lise Hulløen-Orø)
Session 6: Back to the future
(13:15-15.00) Chair: Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Selective reporting; presentation of ongoing work in Norway, Finland and Sweden
- Selective reporting: the Norwegian way (Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud)
- Selective reporting; ongoing work in Finland (Anu Pätäri-Sampo)
- Selective reporting: Swedish perspective (Tinna Åhren)
What is going on in EDL? (Erika Matuschek)
S, I, R and RR: Next generation breakpoints (Christian Giske
Session 7: NordicAST goes Pantomime
(20:00-20:15) Chair: Kristjan Orri Helgason
Wild type E.coli - Gunnar Kahlmeter
Meropenem disk (high and low quality) - Christian Giske
Klebsiella pneumoniae - Iren Löhr
MDR surveillance - Lise Hulløen-Orø
Narrator/script: Kristjan Orri Helgason
Script: Anne-Mari Rissanen