Infectious Diseases and HIV Conference

Internal medicine is deeply involved in both the prevention of infectious diseases and their diagnosis and management; it accounts for a broad range of infections affecting different body systems.

This session shall focus on major approaches and techniques used by these specialists in diagnosing, treating, and managing infectious diseases as well as emerging trends that are making a difference to the care of such patients. Comprehensive care of infectious diseases requires knowledge about disease pathology, a patient's history, and risk factors.

Thus, having experienced internal medicine specialists who are capable of handling complicated cases that most of the time involve several systems and an undercurrent condition, is sure to facilitate comprehensive care. They also enable making solid treatment plans by investigating symptoms, carrying out diagnostic tests, and combining findings from various disciplines.

This session on internal medicine will explain the diagnostic practices that internal medicine adopts to correctly identify infectious agents and determine the appropriate treatment. This would be the kind of complex advanced lab test, molecular diagnostic techniques, and imaging studies able to identify pathogens and assess the severity of the disease.

It is in the early and precise diagnosis where patients are faced with antimicrobial resistance or rare infectious diseases that treating patients becomes integral. Besides diagnosis, internal medicine plays a significant role in the management of ongoing infections by appropriate use of pharmacotherapy and assessment of the patient followed by follow-up treatment.

This includes treatment with antimitotic, managing complications, and coordination of therapy with other specialties if necessitated. The session will deal with current guidelines of antibiotic stewardship, optimization of therapy through prevention of antimicrobial treatment-related complications, and personalized medicine approaches to optimal therapy based on individual patient characteristics.

Participants will learn how subspecialties of internal medicine are shaping the management of infectious diseases toward better outcomes and what the latest cutting-edge advances will do to totally transform practice.