COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™21 ACPE Credits
21.0 Contact Hours
21 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
6 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Toxicology/Poisonings: What's Old and What's New
- Review the fundamentals of examining and diagnosing the poisoned patient.
- Discuss appropriate strategies for managing the common toxicologic emergencies.
- Analyze some common and interesting cases in which a poisoned patient presented to the emergency department.
- Discuss some of the new, and up-and-coming recreational drugs of abuse
- Vertigo: I'm So Dizzy, My Head Is Spinnin
- Describe the common presentations of peripheral and central vertigo.
- Describe and review some of the provocative testing which can help to differentiate between a benign presentation of vertigo and a more serious central vertigo.
- Explore a systematic approach to patients presenting with vertigo.
- Syndromes you can't afford to miss
- Discuss some of less frequently seen syndromes that are potentially very dangerous if they are not recognized.
- Describe the pattern-recognition approach to help in diagnosing these conditions.
- Explore cases in which patients presented with these problems
- Emergencies in Hematology and Oncology: Heme Horrors and Oncology Uh Ohs
- Discuss a few of the common yet complicated hematologic emergencies.
- Discuss a few of the common yet complicated oncologic emergencies.
- Develop a simplified approach to a very complicated topic.
- Analyze some difficult cases in hematology and Oncology.
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Emergency Provider
- Describe the mechanisms of action of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
- Explore clinical scenarios where the use of hyperbaric oxygen may be curative or adjunctive to standard therapy.
- Discuss some controversial uses of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
- Difficult Airway: A Basic Problem Solving Approach to the Difficult Intubation
- Discuss predictors of the difficult airway.
- Discuss strategies for creating a ""Plan B"" to manage difficult intubations.
- Use a case based discussion to cement understanding.
- -Describe management of the failed airway. .
- The Science of Ballistics and Gunshot Wounds
- Myths in Medicine
- Environmental Emergencies
- Treatment of Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults and Children
- Develop treatment strategies for Otitis media, sinusitis and pneumonia
- Immunization Update: Adults
- Develop strategies for implementing new vaccines such as the new shingles vaccine into schedules
- Immunization Update: Pediatrics
- Develop strategies for addressing vaccine hesitancy
- Avoiding Common Diagnostic Pitfalls
- Spot situations can can often lead to diagnostic errors
- Using New Diagnostic Modalities
- Consider how new tests can be cost effectively added to patients they treat
- Animal Bites and Related Syndromes
- Identify common pathogens and treatment guidelines
- Approach to the Patient With Lymphadenopathy
- identify common etiologies incuding EBV, cat scratch and Mycobacteria
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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