Ordering and Administering COVID-19 Therapeutics: Casirivimab and Imdevimab
Activity Overview
Accreditation
Target Audience
Pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians desiring to meet qualifications as defined in the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act declaration to order and/or administer select COVID-19 therapeutics. Pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians with an interest in learning more about COVID-19 therapeutics.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) currently available and their role in the treatment and/or post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19.
- Describe clinical considerations and contraindications for available COVID-19 mAbs.
- Give examples of infusion or administration reactions to mAbs and how to respond.
Schedule of Activities
- Introduction and Announcements
- Presentation
- Questions, Answers, and Discussion
Faculty
- Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCSCP, FASHP, Senior Director Pharmacy Practice and Quality, ASHP
- Katherine Yang, PharmD MPH, UCSF Clinical Professor, UCSF San Francisco Medical Center, Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacist
- Sarah Edgerly, PharmD, University of Kentucky, Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Disclosures
In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience.
No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company.
Methods and CE Requirements
This activity consists of recordings of faculty slides presentations with embedded self- assessment. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP eLearning Portal. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit, and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity.
Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Claim your CE at http://elearning.ashp.org. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity.