Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Geriatrics

Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Geriatrics is a Western Caribbean cruise conference round-trip from Port Canaveral.

Topics

• MCI and Alzheimer`s Disease
  • Understand the potential implications of early diagnosis of dementia for patient care outcomes
  • Define Mild Cognitive Impairment in both amnestic and non-amnestic disease states
  • Evaluate patients for symptoms of cognitive and functional loss
  • Describe the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer`s disease
  • Counsel families and caregivers at all stages of disease
  • Apply appropriate drug and non-drug interventions for patients with dementia
• Osteoporosis
  • Utilize therapies that include bisphosphonates, PTH and inhibitors of the RANK/RANKL/OPG system
  • Evaluate screening recommendations and apply them to everyday practice
  • Better advise patients on calcium supplementation
  • Review the current controversies and clinical studies regarding Vitamin D
• Management of Constipation
  • Define primary as well as secondary causes of hypertension in the older adult
  • Understand the common barriers that hinder the optimal management of chronic constipation in health care settings
  • Provide a rational strategy to manage constipation based on current best evidence of the drug classes currently available
• To Sleep: Perchance to Dream
  • Evaluate the psychiatric, medical, and neurological causes of sleep problems
  • Describe the age-related changes in sleep
  • Intervene with appropriate treatments for complaints of insomnia including CBTI as first line guideline directed care
  • Implement office-based and objective methods for evaluating sleep disordered breathing
• Pulmonary Disease in the Elderly
  • Review current immunization guidelines and supportive therapy
  • Evaluate current trends in pulmonary disease in the elderly
  • Implement the appropriate use of nebulizers, MDIs and oxygen
  • Include new therapies like LAMA/LABA combination inhalers and roflumilast in the management of COPD
  • Apply guideline directed care to patients with COPD
• Where Pain Management Meets Addiction Medicine
  • Apply recent guidelines in pain management including calculations for Morphine Milligram Equivalent Units
  • Understand the pathogenesis of pain
  • Consider the metabolic breakdown of different narcotics and their contribution to serotonin syndrome
  • Choose appropriate drug therapy and multimodal interventions for the relief of pain
  • Employ newer tools to determine the potential for opioid dependence
• Nutritional Supplements: When East meets West
  • Find the on-line resources that provide the best evidence in support of dietary and nutritional supplements
  • Understand that adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for the maintenance of good health and optimum efficiency
  • Council patients on the risks of certain therapies in the presence of other disease
  • Identify targeted supplements for heart disease, vision, depression/mood, and urologic disorders
  • Improve your working knowledge of the Mediterranean diet

Who should Attend

• Physician Assistants
• Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses
• Pharmacists