Title:  2024 Primary Care: Emergency Medicine Update – Day 4 (Non-Physician)

Faculty:  Gary Vilke, MD; Michael Wilson, MD, PhD, FAAEM, FACEP.; Joe Nemeth, MD; Leslie Zun, MD, MBA

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

Day 4

Office Based Procedures 

Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Manage acute epistaxis
• Evaluate and treat common orthopedic issues like dislocations and
• Perform common emergency diagnostic and therapeutic procedures

ENT 

Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Evaluate and manage patients presenting with common head and neck infections
• Assess and treat common ophthalmologic urgent complaints
• Evaluate and manage upper tract swallowed and retained foreign objects

Treating pain in the primary care setting

Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Develop strategies to evaluate and treat common pediatric complaints, including respiratory distress, vomiting and diarrhea, non-accidental trauma, fever and other general pediatric urgent complaints.
• Differentiate common and uncommon pediatric rashes and their treatments.

Minor trauma: “I was in a car accident” 

Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Evaluate clinical decision rules for identifying cervical spine injuries in the blunt trauma patient
• Formulate a workup plan for patients with both penetrating and blunt traumatic injuries in the ED setting
• Incorporate a general workup strategy for trauma patients with abdominal injuries
• Determine which patients should be referred to the ED for further traumatic workup

Do I Need Stitches? Myths and Tricks of Wound Care 

Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Understand the importance of preparing the wound
• Understand different methods for treating the pain with lacerations
• Understand when to consider tetanus and rabies vaccinations as well as tetanus and rabies immunoglobulin