Common Medical Symptoms: Deciphering the Cause and Determining the Management 2015

Common Medical Symptoms: Deciphering the Cause and Determining the Management 2015 is an Alaskan Cruise Conference Round-trip Seattle, Washington.

Key Topics

• Define Hashimoto’s Disease the most common cause of hypothyroidism
• List the common presenting symptoms of hypothyroidism
• Identify patients at risk for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and in specific population groups
• Summarize the current recommendations for the management of hypothyroidism
• Summarize the treatment goals for different populations of patients with diabetes
• Analyze and distinguish the various agents and their mechanisms of action utilized in the treatment of diabetes
• Debate the rationale of combination therapy in treating specific patient groups
• List the available classes of insulin therapies and their proper use in specific patient groups
• Identify risk factors which contribute to the difficult patient encountered in clinical practice
• Prescribe insulin therapy for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and correlate the studies supporting each clinical case
• Realize that many "difficult patients" have undiagnosed (and untreated) psychiatric diagnoses
• Determine strategies for dealing with difficult patients
• Describe the appropriate evaluation of a patient with a concussion syndrome
• Delineate the evaluation of the patient with a possible concussion syndrome
• Define the proper risk stratification of patients at-risk for (or with) CAD
• Prescribe the proper return-to-play (or return-to-work) recommendations following a concussion syndrome
• Recommend individual specific evaluations for the patient presenting with defined risk factors (age, family history, symptoms, etc.)
• Enumerate further testing and evaluation of patients to further define risk stratification of a specific patient
• Differentiate specific findings which indicate a more serious injury
• Explain the proper evaluation of an athlete or employee with a specific musculoskeletal injury
• Identify the cause and management of various sports-related dermatologic findings on exam
• Recommend a program for return-to-play (or return-to-work) after common musculoskeletal injuries
• Describe the most common causes of dizziness and provide an appropriate workup for the patient
• Discuss the participation and management of an athlete with various medical conditions which may affect their level of participation or the types of sports they may participate
• Discuss the common causes of altered adrenal function, its evaluation and management
• Discuss the common causes of low back pain
• Describe the most common causes of heat-related conditions and their managemen
• Discuss the causes of thyroid dysfunction, their evaluation and management

Who should Attend

• Physician Assistants
• Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses