Optimized Management of Medically Complex Patients

  • 14-16 May 2020
  • Conference Center at Waltham Woods, MA, United States

Description

Optimized Management of Medically Complex Patients is a course dedicated to state-of-the-art practices for examination, diagnosis, and management of medically complex patients.

Optimized Management of Medically Complex Patients covers topics such as:

  • Leveraging new diagnosis and evaluation guidelines for these patients
  • Caring for patients with multiple comorbidities and complex medical problems
  • Ensuring that fixing one problem does not create or exacerbate others
  • Developing treatment plans when there are competing medical concerns and treatment options
  • Improving patient satisfaction and outcomes
  • Effectively managing dynamic interactions and complications of multiple systems: circulatory, renal, respiratory, neurologic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, immune, endocrine, etc
  • Recognizing must-not-miss diagnoses in the medically complex patient
  • Avoiding misdiagnosis in the patient with multiple, complicated medical issues
  • Reducing the risk of readmissions and complications
  • Expediently transitioning patients along the care continuum
  • Mastering complicated coordination and transitions of care
  • Writing shorter, clearer, more effective discharge summaries
  • Avoiding functional consequences of critical illness, end-stage renal disease, malnutrition, and cardiopulmonary disease
  • Expertly managing common medical problems that complicate and prolong hospitalizations in the medically complex patient
  • Chronically impaired renal function
  • Mastering effective communication skills with medically complex patients, their families and care team members (or consultants)
  • Liver disease
  • Advanced heart failure
  • Uncontrolled hypertension
  • GI conditions and emergencies
  • Neurogenic orthostasis
  • Autoimmune disease
  • Stroke: treatment and chronic complications
  • Sepsis and its sequalae
  • Diabetes
  • COPD
  • Malnutrition, metabolic derangement
  • Thrombosis
  • Anemia
  • Skin eruptions
  • Hyponatremia
  • Calciphylaxis
  • PTSD, depression, ICU psychosis after cardiac arrest
  • C. diff: advanced management
  • Skin ulcers
  • Bowel and bladder management
  • Urinary tract challenges
  • Delirium and sundowning

Optimized Management of Medically Complex Patients brings together Physicians, NPs, PAs in the following fields of medicine:

  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Internal Medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Hospital Medicine
  • Palliative Care
  • Family Medicine
  • Endocrinology
  • Cardiology and Vascular Medicine
  • Nephrology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Oncology and Hematology
  • Neurology
  • Pulmonary Medicine

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Event Categories

Health & Medicine: Cardiology, Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Internal medicine, Oncology

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