
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
8 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$795 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
Program Purpose: Topics will evaluate recent guidelines and how they should be implemented into the care of patients
- Critical Review of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign
- Realize the important points that impact patient care.
- Utilize the practice in caring for septic patients
- Apply the guidelines to evidence based clinical practice
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Update
- Utilize best practice in caring for patients with ARDS
- Prescribe clinical evidence based mechanical ventilatory and pharmacologic support in patients with acute lung injury
- ICU management of stroke patients
- Critically review the management of acute embolic strokes.
- Infection control practices in the ICU
- Understand and implement cost effective infection control measures in their practice
- Critically evaluate the approach to infection control practices
- Anemia and Transfusions Practices in the Critically Ill
- Identify the appropriate transfusion trigger in the critically ill and the risks associated with transfusion.
- Improve the utilization of blood products by increasing the knowledge related to appropriate transfusion triggers.
- Ethical cases in the Critically III
- Identify areas of ethical dilemmas in our practice
- Apply ethical practices in the care of critically ill patients.
- Critical Review of the AHA CPR-ACLS Recommendations 2023
- Support the need for standards and guidelines regarding training and response for BLS and ACLS
- Expand on the current AHA algorithms by reviewing the most recent literature.
- Antimicrobial Resistance: A Global Issue
- Understand that without effective antimicrobials, the success of modern medicine in treating infections would be at increased risk
- Restless Leg Syndrome
- Diagnose restless leg syndrome and identify treatment options
- Insomnia
- Select appropriate therapy for insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Identify narcolepsy in patient with hypersomnia and formulate treatment options
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Describe obstructive sleep apnea and list treatment options
- Cough
- Summarize common causes of cough and classify between acute and chronic cough
- Asthma
- Select between various asthma treatment options
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Devise pharmacologic treatment plan for patient with COPD
- Helping the menopausal patient sleep
- Assess sleep problems common in menopause and develop treatment options
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.