Product Description
American Medical Seminars, Inc. Emergency Medicine – Day 1 2/16/2026
Original Release Date: July 1, 2026
Expiration Date: July 1, 2029
Presenting Faculty: Joel Kravitz; Andrew Chang;
Facial Trauma
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Perform both a rapid screen and a thorough evaluation of the patient with facial trauma.
- Distinguish the challenges in securing an airway in the patient with facial trauma.
- Describe the indication for different imaging procedures for facial trauma.
- Manage injuries to the soft tissues of the face (lips, tongue, eyelids… ).
Drug-Drug Interactions (DOis)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
- Assess the scope of the problem of drug-drug interactions as it pertains to both the outpatient and emergency settings.
- Explore interactions between prescription and non-prescription medications and review their treatments in the context of the Beers Criteria.
- Review common drug-drug interactions and their complications commonly seen in the emergency room.
Neuromuscular Weakness
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Discriminate between various clinical entities causing neuromuscular weakness, including Guillain Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis, and others.
- Demonstrate techniques to be able to discriminate between organic and functional weakness.
- Compare and contrast upper and lower motor neuron disease.
As the World Turns: Peripheral Vertigo in the ED
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Assess the pathophysiology of benign positional vertigo.
- Differentiate the various diagnostic tests in the evaluation of patients with peripheral vertigo.
- Develop strategies for various therapeutic maneuvers, such as the Epley maneuver, for the treatment of patients with benign positional vertigo.
- Develop treatment recommendations for vestibular neuritis using evidence based medicine from NEJM.
Aortic Catastrophes
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Implement AAA Screening as per the systematic review of guidelines.
- Determine the Stanford classification of a particular aortic dissection based on location.
- Apply appropriate initial therapy in the patient with aortic dissection.
- Assess the risk of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm based on size.
