Program for NordicAST workshop in Malmö, 9th-10th May 2023
Day 1 Tuesday 9 May
Meet the expert sessions:
09:30 - 10:45
Reading of zones (Jenny Åhman, Ingvild Haugan, Nathalie Friberg)
- How are zone diameter breakpoints set and how are they related to MIC breakpoints (Erika Matuschek and Christian Giske)
- What to do when there are no breakpoints (Gunnar Kahlmeter and Barbara Holzknecht)
Pause 10:45 - 11.00
11:00 - 11:20 Welcome (Barbara Holzknecht)
Session 1: Yeast AST
11:20 - 12:30 Chair: Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud
Presentation of cases (Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud)
Principles and pitfalls of yeast AST (Maiken Arendrup)
Lunch 12:30 -13:30
Session 2: MDR screening Gram-positives and yeast
13.30 - 15:15 Chair: Robert Skov
Screening for Candida auris (Maiken Arendrup and Barbara Holzknecht)
Screening for MRSA – aspects on enrichment and molecular screening (Kaisu Rantakokko Jalava)
Screening for VRE (Barbara Holzknecht)
Screening for linezolid-resistant enterococci (Arnfinn Sundsfjord)
Coffee 15:15 - 15.45
Session 3: Methodological challenges in AST in Gram negatives
15.45 - 17.15 Chair: Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter AST (Katy Jeannot)
Update on testing the new beta-lactam-inhibitor combinations vs gram-negatives (Erika Matuschek)
Cefiderocol – challenges (Erika Matuschek)
Dinner 19:00
Day 2: Wednesday 10 May
Session 4: Novel AST approaches
08:30 - 09.55 Chair: Kaisu Rantakokko-Javala
Real-life experience of RAST disk diffusion (Anna-Karin Smekal)
To rAST or not to rAST (Ingvild Haugan)
Novel phenotypic AST methods (Oskar Ekelund)
Genotypic approaches for rapid AST on positive blood cultures (Nathalie Friberg)
Coffee + posters 09:55 - 10:35
Session 5: MDR screening Gram-negatives
10:35 - 12:15 Chair: Dennis Back Holmgaard
Experiences with MDR carriage in patients evacuated from Ukraine – overview and interactive cases (Anna-Karin Smekal and Ørjan Samuelsen)
Resistance to novel Gram-negative agents (Christian Giske)
Challenges related to some carbapenemase screening (Anna-Karin Smekal and Ørjan Samuelsen)
Lunch 12:15-13:15
Session 6: EUCAST
13:15- 14.50 Chair: Ingvild Haugan
Follow-up on anaerobes (Jenny Åhman)
News from EDL (Jenny Åhman and Erika Matuschek)
Stretch
Fosfomycin and oral aminopenicillins (Christian Giske)
Enterococcus spp. other than E. faecalis and E. faecium (Gunnar Kahlmeter or Christian Giske)
14:50-15:00 Goodbye for this year and see you next year (Barbara Holzknecht)
Coffee and departure 15:00
Session 7: The return of NordicAST Pantomime