Primary Care Update: Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Primary Care Update: Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine – 12 Credits

Overview
This conference is designed to provide primary care clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in Emergency Medicine for Primary Care, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Emergency Medicine for Adults and Adolescents with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.

Target Audience
All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about issues in Emergency Medicine for Adults and Adolescents.

Topics and Objectives

Friday, December 17 

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Let’s Use Our Heads
Objectives: 1) Learn how to manage children who have sustained concussions and discuss Return to Play and Return to Learn guidelines 2) Apply guidelines in the management of children with head injury, including the ordering of a head CT 3) Utilize imaging studies appropriately in the evaluation of children with head injury

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM: BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:
The Eyes Have It
Objectives: 1) Understand eye anatomy and the key steps in a thorough eye examination 2) Summarize which clinical conditions may be identified by each step in the eye examination 3) Treat eye pathology, resulting from infection or trauma, and understand when to refer a child to an ophthalmologist 4) Recognize the clinical differences between periorbital cellulitis and orbital cellulitis

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM: BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Subtle Presentations of Devastating Neck Pain
Objectives: 1) Discuss presentations of emergent spinal, vascular, and infectious causes of neck pain 2) Underline important history and physical elements to recognize in order to minimize missing emergent causes of neck pain

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM: BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:
Devious Abdominal Disasters
Objectives: 1) Describe subtle presentations of abdominal emergencies 2) Underline important history and physical exam findings in abdominal emergencies 3) Illustrate the diagnostic challenges in the elderly with abdominal pain

Saturday, December 18

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Numbers Game: What to Do When the Blood Pressure is Too High
Objectives: 1) Differentiate between a hypertensive emergency and asymptomatic hypertension 2) Discuss the dangers of acute management of asymptomatic hypertension 3) Identify which patients need emergent referral

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM: BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:
Endocrine Emergencies You Thought You Knew
Objectives: 1) Describe atypical presentations of diabetes mellitus 2) Illustrate diagnostic challenges of thyrotoxicosis and myxedema 3) Discuss adrenal insufficiency and its management

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM: BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Thinking Better: Medical Decision-Making at the Bedside
Objectives: 1) Recognize how pattern recognition, memory, and making snap judgments may lead to diagnostic errors 2) Understand the cognitive errors that physicians make most frequently 3) Develop an approach to medical decision-making that will help avoid diagnostic error

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM: BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:
Visual Diagnosis
Objectives: 1) Demonstrate the ability to identify diagnoses in children by simple visual inspection 2) Discriminate among common pediatric diagnoses by asking appropriate historical questions 3) Appreciate the importance of pattern recognition in establishing a diagnosis

Sunday, December 19

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Infants Behaving Badly
Objectives: 1) Develop a thorough differential diagnosis for ill-appearing infants 2) Summarize the key management strategies in actual cases of ill-appearing infants 3) Select appropriate diagnostic studies in the evaluation and management of infants with interesting and uncommon diagnoses

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM: BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:
Does My Patient Need Surgery?
Objectives: 1) Make rapid management decisions based on children presenting signs and symptoms suggestive of a surgical emergency 2) Select appropriate diagnostic studies in the evaluation of children with surgical emergencies 3) Avoid activities that will result in a delayed diagnosis for children with surgical emergencies

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM: BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Deadly Back Pain You Don’t Wanna Miss
Objectives: 1) Discuss red flags to look for in the evaluation of patients with back pain 2) Identify some dangerous diagnoses that can present with back pain, such as cauda equina and epidural abscess

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM: BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:
Syncope Killers You Don’t Wanna Miss
Objectives: 1) Identify emergent conditions that can present with syncope 2) Recognize ECG findings for syncope that warrant ED referral 3) Discuss the utility of orthostatic vital signs in syncope

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