Product Description
American Medical Seminars, Inc. Emergency Medicine – Day 4 2/19/2026
Original Release Date: July 1, 2026
Expiration Date: July 1, 2029
Presenting Faculty: Joel Kravitz; Ken Butler;
Coagulopathy in the ER: All Bleeding Stops Eventually
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, EBM
- Differentiate different patterns of coagulopathy that present to the ED.
- Develop an evaluation and treatment plan for non-traumatic bleeding disorders in the ED, including hemophilia, TTP, ITP and others.
- Consider the rationale and indications for the use of blood products used in the treatment of the bleeding patient.
- Review the newer anticoagulation agents used today, such as Prasugrel (Effient) and Dabigatran (Pradaxa), as per the referenced RCT’s and EBM studies such as Rocket, RE-LY and Einstein.
Sick Trauma Patient in the Non-Trauma Center
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Recognize why we no longer follow the hematocrit and consider the utility of serial lactates in the trauma patient.
- Detect subtle risks and signs in a retroperitoneal bleeding patient.
- Distinguish who gets permissive hypotension and who should not.
- Identify the risk of hypotension and what it means in traumatic brain injury using evidence base medicine from JAMA surgery
- Utilize antifibrinolytics in bleeding patients for medical transport.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Develop an approach to assessing the head injured patient where you can forget about the GCS scoring system.
- Identify the TBI clinical presentation where “The eyes have it”.
- Determine when TBI necessitates a “formal” RSI intubation.
- Develop an approach to assessing the head injured patient where you can forget about the GCS scoring system.
The High-Risk Abdomen You Cannot Afford to Miss
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Identify clinical presentations and findings that should alert you to not being fooled by a negative test.
- Develop clinical strategies that will enable you to think outside the abdominal “black box.
- Determine how one simple bedside test can save a life.
MythBusters: challenging dogma in EM
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Using medical evidence, challenge conventionally accepted medical dogma that most emergency physicians deem as absolute truth
- Review some recent literature that is beginning to change practice.
- Closely examine the literature for flaws and errors in methodology to elucidate if they are misleading
