Selected Topics in Primary Care and Emergency Medicine for PCPs Cruise 2019 is a conference that covers topics such as:
- There is a What in My ED (or Clinic)?
- Assess returning travelers presenting with varied complaints
- Identify common and not so common diseases of travelers and immigrants
- Discuss treatment options
- Travel Medicine: Preparation and Prevention
- List commonly needed Immunizations for travelers
- Assess appropriately the medical risk to the traveler
- Utilize travel medicine related website resources
- Implement helpful travel preventative treatments
- Medical Error Reduction: Optimizing Outcomes and Patient Safety
- Discuss how functioning as a team with open communication and no fault reporting can help prevent errors
- Identify potential sources of medical errors in the way they approach pt assessment and diagnosis
- Iincorporate this understanding into their approach to patients
- Tackling the Opiate Crisis: An overview of Suboxone
- Identify potential candidates for suboxone (or other MAT) treatment
- Discuss the role suboxone can play in the treatment of an opiate addict
- Review the limits of treatment
- Death by Breathing: Reassessment of the ABCs in resusciation
- Identify errors in ventilation
- Describe the dangers of excessive ventilation
- Apply this information in the treatment of respiratory and cardiac arrest
- List the techniques to mitigate and correct this
- Updates in the Management of CV and CAD from Office to the ED
- Incorporate the latest guidelines and recommendations into daily practice
- Summarize some of the changes in guidelines
- Describe changes in EMS and ED care of the patient with chest pain or STEMI
- Rapidly identify a STEMI on ECG
- Death by Oxygen: Reassessing the need for oxygen in all patients
- Describe the goals and targets of oxygen therapy
- Identify the conditions for which hyperoxemia is potentially dangerous
- Apply this information in patient care
Selected Topics in Primary Care and Emergency Medicine for PCPs Cruise 2019 brings together:
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Nurse Practitioners