
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- New antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis
- Utilize up-to-date information regarding indications and usage of new antimicrobials
- Develop a reasoned approach to considering antimicrobial prophylaxis per American Heart Association guidelines
- Confusing diagnostics in infectious diseases
- Discuss how infectious disease tests are reported
- Appropriately use and interpret some newer molecular tests for infectious diseases
- Intraabdominal infections and diverticulitis
- Describe the approach to intraabdominal infections and select appropriate antimicrobial therapy
- Skin and soft tissue infections
- Recite common pathogens associated with skin infections
utilize appropriate antimicrobial therapy based on exam
- C difficile and other diarrheas
- Recite common challenging aspects of treating diarrhea in the era of C difficile infection
- Infectious risks in international travelers
- Recite commonly encountered diseases associated with international travel
- Identify necessary items to bring for international travel
- Infectious Disease image review and word association (1-1.25 hrs)
- Recall specific infectious diseases based on keywords and/or images
- Review of SARS-CoV2 since 2020 and update in Mpox
- Understand presentations for covid 19 as well as inpatient and outpatient treatment strategies, and vaccine indications
- Discuss the current status of Monkey Pox and vaccination/li>
- Male Urological Emergencies
- Discuss time-related caveats in management of testicular torsion and renal colic
- CNS infections
- Discuss timing and alternatives to lumbar puncture in cases of suspected CNS infections
- Allergy and Anaphylaxis
- Appreciate the role of early epinephrine administration and early airway management in acute anaphylaxis and angioedema
- Abdominal pain and trauma
- Identify the limitations of physical exam and imaging studies in excluding some important abdominal pathologies
- Airway Management
- Discuss importance of preparation and pretreatment for successful airway management
- Manage airway in a variety of emergencies
- ENT emergencies
- Recognize and manage certain ENT emergencies with focus on rational and safe care
- Effectively manage common maladies such as epistaxis and recognize uncommon ones such as mucor
- Anticholinergics and organophosphates
- Discuss approach and management of intentional and iatrogenic anticholinergic and cholinergic toxicity
- Enable recognition of appropriate toxidromes, decontamination, and resuscitation
- Psychiatric Medicine Toxicity
- Evaluate for the presence of a toxidrome: vitals, mental status, pupils, mucous membranes, bowel sounds, urinary retention
- Bronchiolitis and Asthma in Children
- Discuss best practices for patients with mild to moderate acute asthma exacerbations
- Identify which patients would benefit from aggressive asthma treatment in your emergency department
- Pediatric Visual Diagnosis
- Identify illness processes by key visual diagnostic clues
- Pediatric Hyperglycemic Emergencies
- Discuss the presentation and diagnostic workup of pediatric hyperglycemia
- Describe a treatment plan for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Recognize some of the more severe complications of diabetic ketoacidosis and when/how to intervene
- Recognize hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state in children and how to intervene
- Healing your healers: Recognition of and Recovery from Second Victim Syndrome
- Ins and Outs: What's new in pediatric ingestions
- Understand emerging trends for observation vs. retrieval of foreign bodies
- Analyze evaluation, management and intervention strategies for newer hazards including laundry pods, magnetic toys and electronic cigarettes
- At Risk Children and Adolescents
- Identify risk factors and discuss the prevalence of physical abuse and suicide in children
- Develop plans to maximize safety interventions for these at risk groups
- Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies
- Apply best practices for pediatric seizure care based on appropriate risk stratification
- Increase recognition of pediatric patients at risk for stroke
- Obstetric Emergencies
- Understand etiology of pregnancy related morbidity and mortality and apply this knowledge to identify opportunities for intervention
- Identify best practices in the recognition and aggressive treatment of pre-eclampsia and hemorrhage.