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

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5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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    Title:  2024 Primary Care: Emergency Medicine Update – Day 4 (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

     

     

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