LMCE2020

[PL01]
The current status of creatinine standardization in Korea

[EW01]
Abbott Korea

The COVID-19 pandemic initially led to assumptions on testing. This lecture will discuss the latest information on what we understand about the types of diagnostics and what they are best used for. The latest guidelines from groups like CDC and IDSA will also evaluated.

[EW02]
Becton, Dickinson Korea

Rapid diagnostic methods would permit more immediate initiation of effective treatment, thus reducing the amount of time that MDR TB patients are infective. In this workshop, we will introduce molecular tests for MDR-TB and discuss their characteristics.

[EW03]
Roche Diagnostics Korea

More than 10 million tests were conducted by July this year since COVID 19 pandemic last 1.5 years in Korea. With increasing test volume in the continuous COVID-19 pandemic, the laboratory needs to meet the growing needs of daily testing requirements with highly efficient workflows rather than a manual process which requires lots of labor-intensive works, that healthcare faces accumulated fatigue of the lab staffs and labor shortage. For the solution to this situation, it is time to consider a "High-throughput Automated COVID 19 test system" The information on Roche cobas 6800 system, which is registered as the first automation system for COVID19 testing in Korea, its real clinical practice is introduced.

[KS01]
Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal host factors critical for SARS-CoV-2 infection

[EW04]
Seegene: Novel insight for complete management of gastrointestinal infection

Diagnosis solution of gastrointestinal infection
In acute gastrointestinal infections (GI), detecting an exact causative pathogen in time is crucial for diagnosis and patient management. In this workshop, we will introduce new assays that provide more information and share comparative evaluation results with the existing testing method.

[EW05]
Sysmex Korea

This workshop will address the current RBC analysis method and new automated method in Sysmex, UF-Series to discriminate hematuria type, glomerular origin or not. Based on the results of multicenter studies, it will identify the strengths, limitations, and clinical usefulness of manual and automated analysis.

[EW06]
SD BIOSENSOR

In the education workshop, we will introduce a new IGRA product, Covi-FERON, for checking SARS-CoV-2 specific T cell immunity.

[SY01]
Hereditary breast cancer

Hereditary breast cancer is an important genetic disease requiring multidisciplinary approaches for the patients. This session describes specialized medical aspects of the hereditary breast cancer, including genetic testings, prediction and interpretation of variants, genetic counselling, and updates in clinical management of it.

[SY02]
Practical aspects of laboratory management (IX) : Introduction of the essential concepts for practical laboratory management

The ‘Laboratory Management Committee’ will introduce the essential concepts for laboratory management in the ‘Practical Handbook of Laboratory Medicine’, which are the basic elements for systematic laboratory management.

[SY03]
Education course for laboratory medicine specialist

This session is an essential education program to qualify as a laboratory medicine specialist. And the program covers the whole of the laboratory management, evaluation of resident training and laboratory information necessary for instruction of residents.

[SY04]
The role of clinical microbiology in COVID-19 control

This session will comprehensively cover the clinical and diagnostic significance of the genetic variation of SARS-CoV-2, the clinical application of the diagnostic test for COVID-19, and a laboratory approach to coping with outbreak of healthcare-associated COVID-19. We want to emphasize that diagnostic testing contributes not only to the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, but also to infection control at the institutional and national level.

[SY05]
Tests for diagnosing and monitoring chronic kidney disease

In many cases, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is only found when a routine blood or urine test you have for another problem shows that your kidneys may not be working normally. Therefore, to know how well kidneys are working is to get tested. This is especially important for people who have diabetes, high blood pressure, or a family history of kidney disease. In this session, we will discuss the clinical application of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). We will also look at testing for urine albumin.