Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Geriatrics is a Western Caribbean cruise conference round-trip from Port Canaveral.
Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Geriatrics covers topics such as:
- MCI and Alzheimer`s Disease
- Understand the potential implications of early diagnosis of dementia for patient care outcomes
- Define Mild Cognitive Impairment in both amnestic and non-amnestic disease states
- Evaluate patients for symptoms of cognitive and functional loss
- Describe the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer`s disease
- Counsel families and caregivers at all stages of disease
- Apply appropriate drug and non-drug interventions for patients with dementia
- Osteoporosis
- Utilize therapies that include bisphosphonates, PTH and inhibitors of the RANK/RANKL/OPG system
- Evaluate screening recommendations and apply them to everyday practice
- Better advise patients on calcium supplementation
- Review the current controversies and clinical studies regarding Vitamin D
- Management of Constipation
- Define primary as well as secondary causes of hypertension in the older adult
- Understand the common barriers that hinder the optimal management of chronic constipation in health care settings
- Provide a rational strategy to manage constipation based on current best evidence of the drug classes currently available
- To Sleep: Perchance to Dream
- Evaluate the psychiatric, medical, and neurological causes of sleep problems
- Describe the age-related changes in sleep
- Intervene with appropriate treatments for complaints of insomnia including CBTI as first line guideline directed care
- Implement office-based and objective methods for evaluating sleep disordered breathing
- Pulmonary Disease in the Elderly
- Review current immunization guidelines and supportive therapy
- Evaluate current trends in pulmonary disease in the elderly
- Implement the appropriate use of nebulizers, MDIs and oxygen
- Include new therapies like LAMA/LABA combination inhalers and roflumilast in the management of COPD
- Apply guideline directed care to patients with COPD
- Where Pain Management Meets Addiction Medicine
- Apply recent guidelines in pain management including calculations for Morphine Milligram Equivalent Units
- Understand the pathogenesis of pain
- Consider the metabolic breakdown of different narcotics and their contribution to serotonin syndrome
- Choose appropriate drug therapy and multimodal interventions for the relief of pain
- Employ newer tools to determine the potential for opioid dependence
- Nutritional Supplements: When East meets West
- Find the on-line resources that provide the best evidence in support of dietary and nutritional supplements
- Understand that adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for the maintenance of good health and optimum efficiency
- Council patients on the risks of certain therapies in the presence of other disease
- Identify targeted supplements for heart disease, vision, depression/mood, and urologic disorders
- Improve your working knowledge of the Mediterranean diet
Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Geriatrics brings together:
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
