Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, and Neurology

Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, and Neurology is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Jun 05 - 15, 2020 at Celebrity Edge, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Target Audience:
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists

Credits:
• 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• 14 ACPE Credits
• 14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
• 14.0 Contact Hours

Topics:
? Headache
• Apply acute migraine medications
• Discuss the different clinical signs and symptoms of various tTrigeminal autonomic cephalgia
• Diagnose and manage chronic migraine and medication overuse headache
? Seizures
• Use of antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of seizures
• Identify patients? nonepileptic behavioral disorders
• Assess patients presenting with their first seizure
? Multiple sclerosis
• Discuss the indications and side effects of the current and most imminent therapies for MS
• Summarize current and emerging imaging techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of MS
• Counsel a patient with MS about reproductive issues
? Dementia
• Recognize the key features for the diagnosis of Alzheimer?s disease, vascular dementia, and frontotemporal dementia
• Identify the appropriate use of CSF and imaging biomarkers in clinical dementia diagnosis
• Use appropriate phamacologic and non pharmacologic approaches for the management of patients with dementia
? Stroke
• Provide an overview of emergent evaluation of a stroke patient
• Summarize the recommendations for management of hypertension, physical activity, dyslipedemia, diabetes mellitus, diet, and lifestyle
• Discuss the antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapies
? Movement disorders
• Recognize the key features associated with the most common movement disorders
• List the clinical features distinguishing essential tremor form cerebellar tremor from Parkinson&apost;s tremor
• List the cognitive, behavioral and sensory manifestations associated with tics in Tourettte syndrome and related disorders
? Sleep
• Discuss the core science concepts of sleep wake regulation
• Discuss the underlying neurochemistry and pathophysiology of major sleep disorders
• Apply strategies for diagnosis and assessment of patients with common disturbances
? EM Myths & Legends stealing your resources.
• Recommend evidence based improvement of treatment plans affected by myth
? Diversity & Inclusion in Quality Patient Care
• Explain health care disparities and how diversity & Inclusion diminish health care disparities difficulty managing patients of other cultures due to social barriers.
? Disparities Interpreter Services
• Explain the potential of medical errors created by use of non-professional interpreters. Inability to efficiently use professional translator service
? Sepsis Update: 2019
• Create a personal plan to comply with 2019 sepsis bundle 1 guideline difficulty reaching compliance with sepsis quality measures
? Stroke Outliers:
• Explain the epidemiology of wake-up stroke Recognize syndromes that mimic stroke and avoid lytic therapy Predict risk of stroke after TIA avoiding misdiagnosis of stroke
? Airway Management: Avoiding Intubation in Respiratory distress
• Direct the care of respiratory distress patient to avoid intubation Inability to use new oxygen delivery and airway devices in ED.
• Create an algorithm for use of adjuncts to oxygenation and ventilation to avoid intubation