Description

Optimized Management of Medically Complex Patients is a course dedicated to state-of-the-art practices for examination, diagnosis, and management of medically complex patients.

Topics

Leveraging new diagnosis and evaluation guidelines for these patients
Caring for patients with multiple comorbidities and complex medical problems
Ensuring that fixing one problem does not create or exacerbate others
Developing treatment plans when there are competing medical concerns and treatment options
Improving patient satisfaction and outcomes
Effectively managing dynamic interactions and complications of multiple systems: circulatory, renal, respiratory, neurologic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, immune, endocrine, etc
Recognizing must-not-miss diagnoses in the medically complex patient
Avoiding misdiagnosis in the patient with multiple, complicated medical issues
Reducing the risk of readmissions and complications
Expediently transitioning patients along the care continuum
Mastering complicated coordination and transitions of care
Writing shorter, clearer, more effective discharge summaries
Avoiding functional consequences of critical illness, end-stage renal disease, malnutrition, and cardiopulmonary disease
Expertly managing common medical problems that complicate and prolong hospitalizations in the medically complex patient
Chronically impaired renal function
Mastering effective communication skills with medically complex patients, their families and care team members (or consultants)
Liver disease
Advanced heart failure
Uncontrolled hypertension
GI conditions and emergencies
Neurogenic orthostasis
Autoimmune disease
Stroke: treatment and chronic complications
Sepsis and its sequalae
Diabetes
COPD
Malnutrition, metabolic derangement
Thrombosis
Anemia
Skin eruptions
Hyponatremia
Calciphylaxis
PTSD, depression, ICU psychosis after cardiac arrest
C. diff: advanced management
Skin ulcers
Bowel and bladder management
Urinary tract challenges
Delirium and sundowning