Product Description
CME Sponsors: American Medical Seminars, Inc.
Activity Title: Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Review and Update – Day 1
Recorded Dates: 1/27/2025
Original Release Date: July 1, 2025
Expiration Date: July 1, 2028
Presenting Faculty: Mark Joffe; Robert Belfer;
Non-Traumatic Surgical Abdominal Emergencies
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Recognize, diagnose and manage life-threatening abdominal emergencies that require surgical intervention
- Determine what radiologic studies are most beneficial in assisting one’s diagnostic ability in abdominal surgical emergencies
Pediatric Sepsis
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Review current data on sepsis and sepsis shock
- Consider the importance of early recognition leading to early treatment
- Identify the types of pediatric patients at highest risk for sepsis
Life-Threatening Pediatric Infections
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Recognize, diagnose and manage numerous common/uncommon serious infections in pediatrics
- Develop a differential diagnosis for the patient who presents with fever and a rash
- Recognize emerging pediatric complications related to the COVID virus
Respiratory Distress in Young Children
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- List the differential diagnosis of common and not so common causes of respiratory distress in young children.
- Choose appropriate diagnostic tests and explain why some tests are not indicated for young children with respiratory distress
- Discuss the relative effectiveness of bronchodilators, steroids, high-flow nasal cannula and non-invasive ventilation in the treatment of young children with various respiratory diseases.
Dilemma of the Foreign Body – Aspirated or Ingested
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- Evaluate the epidemiology and clinical presentation of aspirated versus ingested foreign bodies.
- Recommend appropriate radiographic evaluation of children with a history that may suggest of foreign body ingestion.
- Determine the diagnostic approach and radiographic interpretation of children with aspirated foreign bodies
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