Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Course (Jul 20 - 21, 2019)

Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Course is organized by Hospital Procedures Consultants (HPC) and will be held from Jul 20 - 21, 2019 at Crowne Plaza Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.

Accreditation:
The live weekend course is certified for up to 20 hours AMA PRA Category 1 creditsTM. The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Description:
All students will gain online access to our 19 didactic modules that includes all of the lectures and procedural videos for our Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures course. These modules should all be completed prior to your scheduled hands-on skills lab session. As such, you will be able to complete all of the didactic preparation for our course anywhere and anytime and you will be able to review all of the lectures and full-length procedural videos as many times as you would like for a whole year!

After completion of the didactic modules, you will join us for a full 10 hours per day of simulation-based training in ALL of these hospital procedures. This procedural training day is 100% hands-on skills lab training with SIX INSTRUCTORS (a 6:1 student/faculty ratio)! You will receive customized, hands-on training in: landmark-guided and ultrasound-guided central line placement, ultrasound-guided peripheral IV placement, intraosseous line placement, arterial line placement, vascular ultrasound, chest ultrasound, spine ultrasound, limited Echocardiography, E-FAST exams, RUSH exams, landmark-guided and ultrasound-guided thoracentesis,ultrasound-guided paracentesis, and lumbar puncture, needle decompression, chest tube placement, pigtail catheter placement, basic suturing, endotracheal intubation, King tube airway placement, laryngeal mask airway placement, stylet-guided intubations, Glidescope intubation, and options for difficult airway management. Bedside ultrasound training will be conducted on paid ultrasound models.

Objectives:
Students will learn the indications, contraindications, technique and complications for the 20 most common hospitalist and emergency procedures. Students will learn how to perform procedural sedation, the basics of mechanical ventilation, bedside ultrasound for diagnostic ultrasound, ultrasound-guided procedures and the coding and documentation of procedures.

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