UCSF CME: High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii 2019

UCSF CME: High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii is organized by The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Office of Continuing Medical Education and will be held from Feb 17 - 21, 2019 at 'Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 27 hours of CME Credits.

Overview:
High Risk Emergency Medicine Hawaii is a course designed to address those topics that, due to the risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure, produce the greatest anxiety and concern in the daily practice of emergency medicine. Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, nationally renowned for emergency medical and trauma care, this conference will meet the needs of the practitioner who encounters a high risk condition in their daily medical practice. This includes practicing emergency physicians as well as internists, family practitioners, and others who practice in an urgent care, high risk, or emergency department setting.

Objectives:
The objectives of this conference are to improve competence in diagnosis, treatment, performance of procedures, and patient counseling for neurologic, oncologic, traumatic, cardiovascular, infectious, pediatric, respiratory, and toxicologic emergencies.

Pre-conference: Pediatric Emergencies Bootcamp will be held on Feb 16, 2019

Pre-conference Overview:
For the first time this year, we will be offering a one-day course focusing specifically on high-risk pediatric emergency medicine (PEM). The morning session will include presentations on several anxiety-provoking topics, with each presentation to be followed by small group case discussions led by our PEM experts. The afternoon will consist of workshops whereby participants will rotate through 8 hands-on stations focused on pediatric airway, access, and other procedures. Here, participants will be able to practice managing difficult airways, placing pigtail catheters, obtaining ultrasound-guided intravenous access on infants and children, and performing procedures in special pediatric populations, such as replacing gastrostomy buttons and managing tracheostomies.