2024 Infectious Diseases: Treatment in Both Inpatient and Outpatient Settings - Day 2 (Physician)

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5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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    Title: 2024 Infectious Diseases: Treatment in Both Inpatient and Outpatient Settings – Day 2 (Physician)

    Faculty:Stephen J. Gluckman, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.I.D.S.A.; Valerianna Amorosa, M.D.; Blair C. Weikert, M.D.

    Release Date: 7/1/2024 Expiration Date: 7/1/2027

     

    Day 2

    Influenza, COVID-19 and Pandemics

    Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

    • Appraise COVID-19 Diagnostic testing.
    • Understand current inpatient and outpatient treatment and management strategies for COVID-19.
    • COVID-19 and influenza vaccine review.

     

    Community Acquired Pneumonia & RTI, Acute Pharyngitis & Sinusitis

    Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

    • Appraise the epidemiology of community acquired pneumonia.
    • Construct the differential diagnosis and employ specific management when making the diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia.
    • Appraise the rising incidence of resistance and utilize alternative therapies when indicated.
    • Determine the role of antibiotics in bronchitis.
    • Recognize the rationale for antibiotic guidelines.
    • Determine the features and predictors that guide your diagnostic testing of acute pharyngitis.
    • Apply the best courses of treatment and overall management based on pharyngitis treatment guidelines.
    • Develop a framework for treatment and antibiotic prescribing for acute sinusitis.

     

     

    What is the Right Test for This? Practical Update on the Role of Labor Testing in the Diagnosis of ID

    Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

    • Update in lab identification of ‘routine’ pathogens.
    • Understand the role and use of molecular diagnostics.
    • Case-based discussion of appropriate lab tests in certain diagnostic scenarios.

     

    Common Issues Surrounding Tick Borne Illnesses in the U.S.

    Attendees of this presentation will be able to:

    • Determine the major tick vectors in the United States and their associated diseases.
    • Relate the proper technique for tick removal.
    • Differentiate the clinical presentations, diagnosis and treatment of the major tick-borne diseases in the United States: Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever as per the CDC and IDSA Guidelines.

     

    Meningitis: Commonly Asked Questions

    Attendees of this presentation will be able to:

    • Interpret normal CSF parameters.
    • Interpret abnormal CSF findings and apply them to the proper management of patients.
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