Title: 2024 Hospital and Internal Medicine: A Clinical Review of Common Problems – Day 3 (Physician)
Faculty: Kendal Williams, M.D., M.P.H..; Lawrence H. Brent, M.D.
Release Date: 7/1/2024 Expiration Date: 7/1/2027
Update on the Management of Congestive Heart Failure in the Hospitalized Patient
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Understand and compare the vaccines
- Understand the recommendations for isolation after exposure and after illness
- Understand the status of diagnostic tests and treatments
Update in Inpatient Renal Medicine
- Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Review the evaluation of acute renal failure in the inpatient setting.
- Discuss the forms of dialysis used in hospitalized patients.
- Review the management of hyperkalemia.
- Discuss the management of fluid overload in patients with advanced kidney disease.
- Review best practice strategies for the use of diuretics in hospitalized patient
Update in GI Inpatient Medicine
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- Evaluate and manage both upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding according to the current standard of care.
- Manage common intestinal complications like small bowel obstruction and both minor and major constipation syndromes.
- Manage common gallbladder syndromes as well as acute pancreatitis.
- Evaluate and manage both appendicitis and diverticulitis.
- Assess and strategize the common intestinal emergencies of bowel perforation and ischemia syndromes.
Septic Arthritis
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- Determine the risk factors associated with septic arthritis.
- Utilize the British Society of Rheumatology Guidelines for management of the hot swollen joint in adults to differentiate septic arthritis from other causes of acute monoarticular
- Utilize epidemiological and clinical clues to determine bacterial etiology in patients with septic arthritis.
Rheumatology Procedures
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Use techniques for appropriate indications for intra-articular and soft tissue injections in rheumatology
- Employ appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies including injections for painful joints as per the ACR recommendations.
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