Spring BAPOCC Meeting

Agenda

 

9:00 -   9:15am

Sign-in, Meet and Greet

 

9:15 - 10:15am   

Rapid HIV AB testing: Laboratory Issues

Valerie Ng, PhD, MD

 

10:15-10:45am

Confirmatory Testing: IFA vs Western Blot

Patricia Nassos, PhD

 

10:45-11:00am

Q&A and Break

 

11:00- Noon

Panel Discussion with multiple clinicians on:

• Infectious Disease/HIV, Family & Community

• Medicine/Substance Abuse, Emergency Services

Noon – 1:30pm 

Working Roundtable Lunch (We will send out an email as the event gets closer to let you know if lunch will be provided or we will be brown-bagging it)

 

Topic: What bugs you most about your POC Program?

Share and see if others have solved issues like:

1. How do you stop POC personnel from sharing glucose meter passwords?

2. What penalties do you enact when a POCT is out of compliance?

3. How do you regularly assess your POCT sites for compliance?

4. How do you manage your POCT inventory and supplies?

5. What QC is done when you transport POCT site supplies to other off-campus sites?

1:30 – 3:00pm 

Interactive Session: CLSI revisions in Progress and POCT Implications ~ Learn what’s being considered/Influence the process! (EP-18 Risk Mgmt Techniques to ID/Control Lab Error, EP-22 Presentation of Mfg’s Risk Mitigation Info for users of in-vitro devices, EP-23 User Defined QC Protocols based on EP-22).

 

3:00 – 4:00pm  Q&A

 

 

RSVP by April 25^th to Clayton Hooper, SFGH

Clayton.Hooper@sfdph.org, 415-206-3493

 

Learning Objectives:

1.  Rapid HIV antibody testing:

• Explain the differences in test procedure allowing the same test kit to be used as a “waived" or a "moderately complex" test

• Explain the importance of California phlebotomy certification for POCT personnel in determining which specimen type (oral fluid versus whole blood versus plasma/serum) can be used for rapid HIV antibody testing.

• Explain why you might implement a more stringent QC program for your POCT "waived" rapid HIV Ab testing than required by the manufacturerd.  List and describe the regulatory requirements for "waived" rapid HIV antibody testing

2.  Confirmatory HIV antibody testing: 
     IFA versus Western Blot

• Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of IFA versus Western Blot for confirmation of the presence of HIV antibody.

• List the relative accuracies of IFA versus Western Blot for the  confirmation of HIV antibody presence.

 3.  CLSI projects in progress

• List risk mgmt strategies used by manufacturers to prioritize and control residual testing risks

• List some circumstances unique to your environment justifying a  more rigorous and stringent QC program than that recommended by the  manufacturer.

• Understand why and the basis for QC recommendations from regulatory agencies differing from that of manufacturers.

• Describe your POCT testing environment(s) and how you would apply a risk management approach to determine your frequency of QC.

Directions to S.F. General Hospital,

Carr Auditorium, Bldg 3

http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/chn/SFGH/sfghcampusmap.asp

 

 

If map doesn’t show up, use the link above.

• 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, 415-206-8000

• PARKING:  Parking Garage located between 23^rd and 24^th.   In the morning the only entrance that may be open is on 24^th street.    Cost:  $10.00

• CARR Auditorium B3: Located across campus from the Parking Garage.  It runs along 22^nd street (it kind of jags from one side of Potrero to the other).