OVERVIEW

Timely Topics in Fetal, Neonatal and Pediatric Care is organized by Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KRH) and will be held on Sep 14, 2018 at Kalispell Regional Medical Center, Kalispell, Montana, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is includes pediatricians, family practitioners, internists, hospitalists, emergency medicine practitioners, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, rehabilitation specialists, and other interested allied healthcare providers. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Course Description:
Timely Topics is an educational conference held in Kalispell, MT designed for physicians, mid-level providers, and nurses to gain a better understanding and knowledge base regarding fetal, neonatal, and pediatric care. Topics to be addressed include autism spectrum disorders, developmental delays and behavioral issues, neck masses, pediatric trauma, neonatal updates, fetal surgery, respiratory failure and airway emergencies. Attendees should be able to formulate a practical approach to pediatric chronic and acute disease states, identify the appropriate diagnostic tests, make an accurate diagnosis, discuss the various treatment options, and recognize when to treat and when to refer pediatric patients for subspecialty assessment and care. This activity is expected to result in increased provider confidence in making an appropriate diagnosis and treatment decisions.

Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, attendees should be able to:
• Identify pediatric respiratory decomposition.
• Provide appropriate intervention to infants and children with respiratory compromise.
• Describe most common fetal surgical procedures.
• Discuss the evidence of fetal surgical procedures effectiveness.
• List current indications for fetal surgical procedures and outcomes.
• List diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder.
• List the most common neonatal and pediatric neck masses.
• Develop strategies for evaluating behavioral issues in autism spectrum disorder.
• Discuss the role of psychotropic medications in autism spectrum disorder.
• Describe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
• Discuss when to transfer for total body cooling.
• Explain the workup of neonatal and pediatric neck mass.
• Discuss the differential diagnosis of a neonatal pediatric neck mass.
• Describe strategies to avoid secondary brain injury.
• Discuss common neurosurgical inventions in response to pediatric trauma.
• Discuss concussion management.
• Discuss the indications and surgical options to obtain feeding access in neonates, infants, and children.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

KEY DATES

Event Start Date
14 Sep, 2018
Event Start Date
Event End Date
14 Sep, 2018
Event End Date

SPECIALITIES

PediatricsNeonatal and Perinatology

SUGGESTED HOTELS

CONFERENCE VENUE

LocationKalispell Regional Medical Center
Buffalo Hill Conference Center, 310 Sunnyview Ln

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