35th Annual Series: Emergency Medicine & Acute Care 2020 - A Critical Appraisal (Mar 26 - 29, 2020)

35th Annual Series: Emergency Medicine & Acute Care 2020 - A Critical Appraisal is organized by The Center for Medical Education, Inc. The conference is held from Mar 26 - 29, 2020 at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America. This session has been approved for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Join Us for a Focused, Evidence-Based Course That’s Designed to Update You on Over 32 Leading Edge Topics.

Serious CME | Top Destinations | Prime Times

The session renders an engaging, no-fluff, fast-paced, update of the literature surrounding key emergency medicine. The views and experiences on the topics are shared by an experienced, energetic faculty of emergency medicine educators.

Now Using Both EM: RAP’s Emergency Medical Abstracts and CorePendium

The Emergency Medicine & Acute Care Course is collaborating with EM: RAP and will be using as its sources EM: RAP’s Emergency Medical Abstracts and the newly released (October 2019) CorePendium.

Since 1977, Emergency Medical Abstracts is in the haunt for hundreds of journals and producing podcast summaries of the most important papers in emergency medicine.

CorePendium is a new internet-based extensive multimedia text that mainly focuses on emergency medicine which is literature-based and renewed every three months with the latest information from the medical literature.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this session is physicians, PAs and NPs who are practicing in emergency departments and are seeking an evidence-based, literature-focused update in controversial areas of emergency care.

Learning Objectives:
upon attending the conference, an attendee will be able to:
• Review key points from the literature regarding leading-edge Emergency Medicine topics
• Explain literature-based suggestions for practice improvement
• Efficiently translate the collected strategies into improved diagnostics and subsequently implement a better treatment plan for their patients

Topics:
• Dizzy Patients – Is It Posterior Fossa?
• Syncope: Don’t Screw It Up
• No More LPs in Kids Age 29-60 Days?
• UTIs in Toddlers, Overdiagnosed?
• Treating Benign Vomiting / Diarrhea in Kids
• Can You Blame Otitis Media for a Fever?
• Atrial Fibrillation – Lots to Know - Part 1
• Atrial Fibrillation – Lots to Know - Part 2
• Pharyngitis – Still Figuring It Out in 2020
• Clinical Pneumonia / Negative CXR?
• Myths in Emergency Medicine
• The Top 8 Malpractice Diagnoses - Part 1
• The Top 8 Malpractice Diagnoses - Part 2
• US vs Chest X-ray vs CT?
• Sexual / Ethnic / Racial Bias in EM
• Pearls from Risk Management Monthly
• Pearls from ED Leadership Monthly
• Still, Prescribing Fluoroquinolones?
• Who Needs a CTCA in the ED?
• Outpatient Orthopedics Pearls
• New ED Guidelines to Know About - Part 1
• New ED Guidelines to Know About - Part 2
• Psychiatric Patients – Big Time Risks
• DKA in Kids and Adults – Leading Edge
• Trauma Care Controversies
• ED Boarding is Very Bad for Patients!
• Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 1
• Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 2
• Important Recent EM Literature - Part 1*
• Important Recent EM Literature - Part 2*
• Optimizing ED Operations*
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Controversies*

*Topics listed with an asterisk (*) are 90-minute faculty panel discussions; all other topics are 30 minutes. Topics subject to change without notice.