IU Health Emergency Medicine and Trauma for AP 2018

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Course fee:
$100 - All Health Professionals
$25 - Students

1. Describe optimal non-pharmacologic treatment of SVT;
2. Discuss the therapeutic approach to vomiting in diabetic gastroparesis;
3. Recall an evidence-based approach to some common emergency medicine problems;
4. Present cutting edge articles in Emergency Medicine in an unbiased fashion;
5. Outline common biases in current medical literature;
6. Discuss current medication treatments including the latest research on antibiotics;
7. Develop triage plan for symptoms associated with acute pancreatitis in the emergency room;
8. Evaluate and discuss two symptoms associated with acute on chronic pain as it relates to chronic pancreatitis;
9. Use assessment findings to formulate field impression and implement treatment plan for patients with diabetic emergencies;
10. Discuss pharmacological management of diabetic ketoacidosis in the emergency department;
11. Recognize the differential diagnosis of the fussy infant;
12. Describe the laboratory and radiographic studies that are part of the work up of the fussy infant;
13. Describe reporting requirements for inflicted trauma;
14. Assess risk factors with a patient with cardiac sounding chest pain in the Emergency Department;
15. Identify the importance of adequate analgesia and Aspirin with patient who enter the emergency room with chest pain;
16. Describe the management of a Patient with ST elevation on ECG and appropriate therapy;
17. Explain how to order laboratory and ancillary test in order to more fully evaluate patients with cardiac sounding chest pain in the Emergency Department;
18. Explain the dosing considerations and methods of administration, safe use, contraindications and precautions of drugs used in the emergency room;
19. Outline comprehensive patient management plans for the special patient population admitted to the emergency room;
20. Discuss the process to ensure to ensure patient safety when prescribing medications at high-risk for adverse outcomes;
21. Determine if an older patient presenting to the ED with altered mental status is critically ill or not;
22. Recall steps to evaluate and manage older patients with altered mental status including laboratory tests; and
23. Explain medications to avoid which may make older patients with altered mental status to precipitate or worsen delirium.
24. Identify three causes of acute abdominal pain and non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment plans;

Goodman Hall Auditorium is located inside the Neuroscience Center, 362 W. 15th Street, Indianapolis.

Course fee:
$100 - All Health Professionals
$25 - Students

Parking:
Parking available for $5 per day at IU Health Methodist Hospital Parking Garage 1, located at 16th Street and N. Senate Blvd., or IU Health Neuroscience Center, 355 W. 16th Street. 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health. The Indiana University School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Indiana University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Indiana University Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91) (OH-412, 6/1/2019).

Attendees will earn up to 6.91 contact hours with 2.0 Pharmacology Contact Hours for time in attendance and submission of an evaluation.

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018