Title: 2024 Women’s Health/Psychiatry and Infectious Diseases – Day 4 (Non-Physician)

Faculty: Leslie Zun, MD, MBA; John K. Crane, MD; Jerry G. Ninia, MD, RVT

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

Day 4

Infectious Complications of Opiate Addiction Epidemic

Attendees of this presentation will be able to:

• Evaluate the trends in opioid use, overdoses and deaths in the US and assess the reasons for the opioid epidemic in our country.
• Develop strategies to accurately identify injection site abscess
• Recognize the appearance of septic emboli to the lungs in IV drug users

Covid-19, Lessons Learned and Long Covid

Attendees of this presentation will be able to:

• Identify key features of Covid-19 pneumonitis such as ground-glass infiltrates and lymphopenia.
• Evaluate the roles of key treatments such as remdesivir, dexamethasone, and monoclonal antibody therapies for Covid-19.
• Analyze the differences between Covid-19 vaccines available in the U.S.
• Develop self-care strategies to help care providers cope with the stress of a Covid-19 outbreak in their community.

Osteoporosis Understood 

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:

• Identify demographic risk factors for osteoporosis, pathophysiology, diagnosis and medical treatment

Anemia in Pregnancy

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:

• Define anemia in pregnancy and differentiate between physiological, acquired and inherited disease
• Discuss the diagnostic workup of anemia and oral and parenteral treatments including blood transfusion and associated sequelae.

HPV and Cervical Cytology

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:

• Review HPV and understand the different serotypes
• Differentiate Metaplasia from Dysplasia
• Appreciate the histopathology of cervical dysplasia
• Understand the role of the Pap test as a screening tool and colposcopy as a diagnostic study