Topics in Emergency Medicine, Pain Management, and Palliative Care

This conference has been CANCELLED.

Topics in Emergency Medicine, Pain Management, and Palliative Care is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Apr 18 - 25, 2020 at NCL'S Pride of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America.

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

Credits:
• 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• 14 ACPE Credits
• 14.0 Contact Hours
• 10 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs

Description:
These set of lectures is designed to provide important updates in emergency medicine with a focus on anticoagulation and the management of venous thromboembolism as well as bleeding emergencies that may occur in patients on new oral anticoagulants as well as those that present with bleeding peri-procedure. In addition, the relationship between patient safety indicators and quality metrics are discussed both as a separate lecture but also as a theme throughout other lectures - for example, how to approach fluid resuscitation in the context of changing sepsis core measures.

We will review the evolving role of the ED in the diagnosis of HIV and treatment of HIV related illnesses. In addition, a lecture on HCV considers a potential role for the ED in screening and linkage but also on the syndemics of HCV and other disease such as coronary artery disease and diabetes. The colocation of a burgeoning HCV epidemic in young people and the relationship to that epidemic and the ongoing opioid crisis is also discussed. Finally, a quality improvement approach will also be used to consider updated CDC guidelines for the management of STIs.

Topics:
• Sepsis Updates
? Learn EBM supporting CMS Sep-1 Bundle and areas where data is still lacking to further guide therapy
• Updates on patient quality, experience, safety and satisfaction
? Survey of the quality landscape including reviews of patient safety indicators and important hospital metrics
• Venous Thromboembolism
? Diagnosis and treatment of VTE including DVT, SVT, and PE
• HIV
? Review of HIV
? Management of HIV
? Linkage to care and treatment strategies in patients with HIV
• HCV
? Extra hepatic manifestations of HCV
? Linkage to care and treatment strategies in patients with HIV and HCV
• Bleed Management
? Review of non-traumatic and traumatic bleed management
? Consideration of bleeding on anticoagulant medications
• Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and other atraumatic GU pathology
? Review of CDC guidelines for STI management
? Review of common STIs
? Review of other atraumatic GU emergencies
• Opioid Conversions
? Clinicians will be able to use an updated conversion table and switch opioids successfully in practice.
? Clinicians will have a basic understanding of the concept of opioid utility.
• Nalbuphine and buprenorphine
? Clinicians will be able to clinically use nalbuphine and buprenorphine in clinically appropriate situations
• Methadone and levorphanol
? Clinicians will understand the pharmacology and the different dosing strategies of these two opioids
• Opioids in combination with cannabis and with gabapentin
? Clinicians will understand the strength of evidence and potential detriments to combining cannabis or gabapentin to opioid therapy.
• The Balance of Chronic Opioid Therapy
? Clinicians will be aware of the multitude of long-term detriments to opioid therapy
• Palmitoylethanolamide as an Analgesic
? Clinicians will be able to use palmitoylethanolamide as an analgesic
• Difficult Pain Cases
? Clinicians will be able to manage difficult pain phenotypes such as tenesmoid pain, ischemic extremity pain, choose the appropriate opioids in organ failure and manage chronic persistent opioid dependence.

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