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Watch this clinician training on-demand webinar to see Dr. Steve Ness to walk you through the clinical utility of Monocyte Distributions Width (MDW) and explain the potential benefits of using the biomarker to aid in early sepsis detection for patients in your emergency department.

Monocyte Distributions Width (MDW) Sepsis Biomarker Clinician Training

Sepsis is a prevalent, deadly, yet often elusive condition in emergency departments worldwide. Diagnosing sepsis in patients presenting with mild and non-specific initial symptoms challenges both clinical gestalt and institutional protocols, as use of biomarkers for early sepsis detection has been controversial and their utilization varies widely across countries and institutions. 

In this webinar recording hosted by Sepsis Alliance, Angela D. Craig, APN, M.S., CCNS from Cookeville Regional Medical Center and Dustin Pierce, RN, BSN, CPHQ from University of Kansas Hospital will:

• Introduce and discuss a novel hematologic parameter, MDW, recently cleared in the U.S. for sepsis detection in the emergency department
• Review current clinical evidence for MDW based on results of two large multicenter studies
• Discuss the practical implications of these results to the U.S. standards of sepsis care

Presenters:

Angela Craig, APN, M.S., CCNS 
ICU Clinical Nurse Specialist at Cookeville Regional Medical Center

Dustin Pierce, R.N., BSN, CPHQ
Quality Outcomes Coordinator at The University of Kansas Hospital

Nursing Perspective on Novel Sepsis Biomarker

Sepsis is a prevalent, deadly, yet often elusive condition in emergency departments worldwide. Despite growing recognition in significance of timely identification and guidelines-defined interventions for improvement of patients’ outcomes, diagnosing sepsis in large group of patients who present with mild and non-specific initial symptoms challenges both clinical gestalt and institutional protocols. The decades-long quest for definitive sepsis biomarkers remains largely unfulfilled and utilization of biomarkers varies widely across countries and institutions. 

In this webinar, two world-recognized emergency medicine experts in sepsis, Dr. Tiffany Osborn from Washington University, St. Louis, MO and Dr. Pierre Hausfater from Sorbonne University, Paris, France will introduce and discuss a novel hematologic parameter, Monocyte Distribution Width (MDW), recently cleared by the FDA and European Authorities for sepsis detection in the Emergency Department. MDW is available as a part of CBC with Differential test which is already routinely utilized as an early screening test for a variety of the conditions. They will discuss:

      • The current state of clinical evidence for MDW derived from the series of multicenter studies
      • The practical implications of these results to the U.S. and European standards of sepsis care          

Presenters: 

Tiffany Osborn, MD, MPH, is triple boarded in emergency medicine, U.S. critical care and European critical care.

Professor Hausfater started his career as an internal medicine specialist focused on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

MDW: Early Identification of Sepsis in the Emergency Department

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