Product Description
Sponsors: American Medical Seminars, Inc.
Activity Title: Emergency Medicine for Children and Adults – Day 4
Recorded Dates: 8/15/2024
Original Release Date: July 1, 2025
Expiration Date: July 1, 2028
Presenting Faculty: Mark Joffe; Leslie Zun;
Uncommon office emergencies – anaphylaxis, heat and cold, burns, bites and stings
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Review uncommon emergencies that may present to an office
- Develop strategies to evaluate and treat anaphylaxis, poisoning, cold and heat problems, burns, bites and stings.
Wound Care
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Develop strategies to evaluate and manage wounds.
- Incorporate new skills to properly suture wounds
Office based procedures
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Develop new strategies to assess the indications, processes, and potential adverse events for the following procedures:
- Advanced monitoring
- Procedural sedation
- Intraosseous access
- Epistaxis treatment
- Peritonsillar abscess treatment
- Incision and drainage of abscesses
- Lumbar puncture
- Posterior molds
- Treating agitation
Head Trauma
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Describe effective, evidence-based treatments for children after severe head trauma
- Use the PECARN Head Trauma criteria to make decisions regarding head imaging and observation after head injuries
- Evaluate and manage children at risk for concussion based on recent evidence
Injuries to an Immature Skeleton
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- Describe skeletal development and explain specific pediatric injuries based on developmental factors.
- Review diagnosis and management of common pediatric fractures.
- Show examples of significant pediatric skeletal injuries that are easily missed when interpreting radiographs, and demonstrate how to properly evaluate the imaging studies.
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