Selected Topics in Primary Care and Emergency Medicine for PCPs Cruise 2019

Topics

• There is a What in My ED (or Clinic)?
  • Assess returning travelers presenting with varied complaints
  • Identify common and not so common diseases of travelers and immigrants
  • Discuss treatment options
• Travel Medicine: Preparation and Prevention
  • List commonly needed Immunizations for travelers
  • Assess appropriately the medical risk to the traveler
  • Utilize travel medicine related website resources
  • Implement helpful travel preventative treatments
• Medical Error Reduction: Optimizing Outcomes and Patient Safety
  • Discuss how functioning as a team with open communication and no fault reporting can help prevent errors
  • Identify potential sources of medical errors in the way they approach pt assessment and diagnosis
  • Iincorporate this understanding into their approach to patients
• Tackling the Opiate Crisis: An overview of Suboxone
  • Identify potential candidates for suboxone (or other MAT) treatment
  • Discuss the role suboxone can play in the treatment of an opiate addict
  • Review the limits of treatment
• Death by Breathing: Reassessment of the ABCs in resusciation
  • Identify errors in ventilation
  • Describe the dangers of excessive ventilation
  • Apply this information in the treatment of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • List the techniques to mitigate and correct this
• Updates in the Management of CV and CAD from Office to the ED
  • Incorporate the latest guidelines and recommendations into daily practice
  • Summarize some of the changes in guidelines
  • Describe changes in EMS and ED care of the patient with chest pain or STEMI
  • Rapidly identify a STEMI on ECG
• Death by Oxygen: Reassessing the need for oxygen in all patients
  • Describe the goals and targets of oxygen therapy
  • Identify the conditions for which hyperoxemia is potentially dangerous
  • Apply this information in patient care

Who should Attend

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