Educational Booklets

This booklet aims to guide healthcare professionals through the process of developing and implementing a successful Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) in their hospital. The pragmatic “ASP Building Blocks” approach used in the booklet makes it a truly ‌“hands-on” resource and a must-read for ASP teams.

This educational booklet provides clinicians with a practical guide to the use of procalcitonin (PCT) for ‌patient monitoring, prognosis of disease severity, and guidance for antibiotic discontinuation.

This educational booklet explains basic facts concerning the relevance and procedures of in vitro susceptibility testing. It provides information on the essential elements required to perform and utilize susceptibility testing as a tool for optimizing anti-infectious therapy.

This educational booklet on the use of Procalcitonin (PCT) to support Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) gathers real-world cases from renowned international experts sharing their experience on the use of this biomarker in their clinical practice.

Please note that this educational resource contains the authors’ personal opinions and clinical approaches and does not necessarily represent the viewpoint, strategy or opinions of bioMérieux. 

This booklet covers issues related to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (mostly carbapenemase producers in Enterobacteriaceae), as well as their clinical relevance, detection, treatment and prevention.

This booklet will focus on principles for optimization of antimicrobial prescription and dosing to treat bacterial infections (non-mycobacterial), as well as the value of determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) in customization of antimicrobial therapy, especially for treating critical patients and drug-resistant bacteria.

This educational booklet concentrates on the key information needed to understand, diagnose, control and treat Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), the role of CDI as a quality performance indicator and the importance of diagnostics.

This booklet aims to answer key questions commonly asked in relation to blood culture, provide practical recommendations for routine blood culture procedures, and offer an illustrated step-by-step guide to blood culture collection best practices.

This educational booklet has been written by Professor John Kellum. It aims to stand as a practical guide to AKI for the non-expert.

This booklet will take you through the definition, the burden, the biomarkers, the prevention, evaluation and management of AKI and the follow-up for patients with AKI.

This educational booklet, written by Professor Keertan Dheda, provides an overview and practical guide to the classification, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and prevention of latent and active TB.

It is aimed at recently qualified healthcare professionals, junior medical officers, primary care physicians, and general physicians.

This booklet provides clinicians and laboratory managers with concise, up-to-date information on the pathophysiology and diagnosis of myocardial infarction with special emphasis on the role of hs-cTn measurements for risk stratification and management of patients. Aspects of the laboratory and clinical factors affecting the routine measurement of cTn using hs-cTn assays are also discussed.

This booklet provides clinicians and laboratory managers with concise, up-to-date information on the pathophysiology and diagnosis of heart failure, with special emphasis on the role of NT-proBNP measurements for the risk stratification and management of patients. Some aspects of heart failure prognosis and treatment are also discussed.

This booklet provides clinicians and laboratory managers with concise information on the pathophysiology and diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE), with special emphasis on the role of D-dimer, including criteria for its use as a valid exclusion test.

This educational booklet is intended to be a practical guide on hormone assays for biologists and clinicians to help maximize success rates in their patients using modern infertility treatments.

This educational booklet is intended to be a useful reference tool for blood bank and transfusion services professionals involved in the preparation of platelet concentrates, and the prevention and detection of bacterial contamination.

Recent evidence is growing on the importance of environmental contamination as a reservoir for healthcare-associated infection (HAI): airborne transmission of aspergillosis is a high risk for immunosuppressed patients; water contamination may be a reservoir for acquisition of high-risk pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Legionella pneumophila or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales; the survival of resistant bacteria on dry surfaces has been responsible for transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridiodes difficile.

Read the latest handbook from Hospital Healthcare Europe on “Value of Infectious Disease Diagnostics throughout the Patient Pathway”. Learn how in vitro diagnostics and the concept of the value of diagnostic information (VODI) are essential components of modern-day health care, enabling more informed clinical decision-making and directly impacting the quality of patient care and health-related outcomes.