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Home, Commute or Travel CME™
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ACEP Speaker of the Year Recipient: Dr. Gibbs - 2005
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by Andrew Chang, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.A.A.E.M. - Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Attending Physician, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; by Timothy J. Fries, M.D. - Associate Professor of Neurology, Vice Chair of Neurology, Director of Education and Neurology Clerkship Director, University of Vermont College of Medicine; Director of the Electromyography Laboratory and the Botulinum Toxin Clinic, Section of Neurology, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT; by Michael A. Gibbs, M.D., F.A.C.E.P. - Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine; Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center; President, Maine Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Portland, ME; by Joel Kravitz, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.R.C.P.S.C. - Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Assistant Residency Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; by John M. Loiselle, M.D., F.A.A.P. - Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Assistant Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE and by Richard J. Scarfone, M.D., F.A.A.P. - Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Medical Director, Emergency Preparedness, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA. |
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OVERALL OBJECTIVES: The overall objective is to provide the participant with practical and clinically relevant information. Upon completion of this CME activity, the physician or healthcare provider should be able to describe the current approach to formulating differential diagnoses, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive management of the various disciplines presented.
NEEDS STATEMENT: The specialty of Emergency Medicine presents physicians and practitioners with its own set of unique diagnostic and treatment challenges. These challenges come in the form of life-threatening diagnostic and treatment dilemmas in both the adult and pediatric populations. This CME activity suggests methods of decision analysis, clinical approach and practice behavior to improve outcomes in patient care through reliance on Treatment Algorithms using Evidence-Based studies and Guidelines. Diagnostic and treatment decisions in the common and challenging presentations of Abdominal Pain, Stroke, Trauma Case Management, Toxicology in adults and teens, Severe Pediatric Asthma, and Status Epilepticus (in children) will be discussed. A review and update as given in this activity will help to maintain the level of knowledge needed to keep the Practitioner current in these commonly seen life-threatening presentations.
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| | TOPIC 1 | As the World Turns: Peripheral Vertigo in the ED - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Review the common causes of peripheral vertigo.
| | 2. | | Appreciate the pathophysiology of benign positional vertigo.
| | 3. | | Discuss how to perform various diagnostic tests in the evaluation of patients with peripheral vertigo.
| | 4. | | Discover how to perform various therapeutic maneuvers, such as the Epley maneuver, in the treatment of patients with benign positional vertigo.
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| | TOPIC 2 | Brain Attack!! Acute Treatment of Stroke and TIA - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Appropriately use imaging studies of the brain and cerebral vessels in the setting of acute cerebrovascular disease.
| | 2. | | Explain how management of blood pressure, fever, blood sugar and airway can improve the prognosis of their stroke patients.
| | 3. | | Appreciate that in stroke, time is brain and discover what immediate interventions, including thrombolytics, are necessary in their stroke patients.
| | 4. | | Better manage and triage patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.
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| | TOPIC 3 | Pediatric Status Epilepticus and Febrile Seizures - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Explain the management of Status Epilepticus in the pediatric patient.
| | 2. | | Define appropriate laboratory and imaging studies in the acute care setting.
| | 3. | | List the typical features of a simple and complex febrile seizure.
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| | TOPIC 4 | Abdominal Pain Case Studies - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Outline an evidence-based approach to evaluation of the ED patient with abdominal pain.
| | 2. | | Identify common pitfalls in the assessment of patients with abdominal pain.
| | 3. | | Describe high-risk scenarios related to patients with abdominal pain.
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| | TOPIC 5 | The New Toxidromes - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Describe the presentation and treatment of intoxication with rave drugs like Ecstasy, ketamine and GHB.
| | 2. | | Use a case-based format to discuss some of the newer drugs of abuse.
| | 3. | | Review the toxic properties, and the treatments, of some of the most commonly used herbal medicines.
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| | TOPIC 6 | Trauma Case Studies - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Identify critical issues in the evaluation and management of the injured patient using a case-based format.
| | 2. | | Describe the management imperatives of
| a. | Severe and minor brain injury.
| | b. | Spinal trauma.
| | c. | Blunt chest trauma.
| | d. | Blunt abdominal trauma.
| | e. | Pelvic trauma.
| | f. | Genitourinary trauma.
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| | 3. | | Discuss common pitfalls in the evaluation of the injured patient.
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| | TOPIC 7 | Acute Management of Severe Asthma in the Pediatric Patient - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
| 1. | | Appraise the literature with regard to the treatment of children with severe asthma.
| | 2. | | Summarize the role of continuously nebulized albuterol for children with severe asthma.
| | 3. | | Discuss the use of magnesium sulfate and intravenously administered beta2- agonists in this setting.
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