OVERVIEW

Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Review and Clinical Update is organized by American Medical Seminars (AMS), Inc. and will be held from Mar 27 - 30, 2023 at Lido Beach Resort, Sarasota, Florida, United States of America.

Agenda & Learning Objectives:
1 Day
Let’s Use Our Heads: Head Trauma
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Apply a decision rule generated from a multi-center study to manage head-injured children.
• Manage children who have sustained concussions and apply guidelines from the International Conference on Concussions and other recent publications.
• Utilize imaging studies appropriately in the evaluation of head-injured children.

Visual Diagnosis
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Demonstrate the ability to identify diagnoses in children by simple visual inspection.
• Discriminate among common pediatric diagnoses by asking appropriate historical questions.
• Employ Evidence-Based Medicine and Guideline based management of diseases such as Lyme, Bell’s Palsy, DKA, and other commonly seen disorders.

Summer Scourges
This is the identification, treatment, and prevention of common summertime maladies including sunburns, poison ivy, and mosquito bites. Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP
• Identify specific signs and symptoms of insect bites and stings.
• Dispel common myths regarding the management of poison ivy and insect bites.
• Explain the management of summertime afflictions such as poison ivy and sunburn.

The Eyes Have It: The Red-Hot Eye
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP
• Demonstrate the six-point eye examination and summarize what clinical conditions may be identified by each step in the examination.
• Treat eye pathology resulting from infection or trauma and relate examples of when to refer a child to an ophthalmologist.
• Summarize the differences between sinusitis with inflammatory edema, peri-orbital cellulitis, and orbital cellulitis.

Simple and Complex Febrile Seizures
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Educate parents regarding the prognosis of a child with simple febrile seizures.
• Distinguish between a simple and complex febrile seizure.
• Apply AAP guidelines in formulating an appropriate evaluation of the child following a simple febrile seizure.

2 Day
Clinical Clues to Detecting Child Physical Abuse
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Identify findings that are characteristic of physical abuse.
• Distinguish physical findings are often confused with physical abuse.
• Formulate further evaluation based on the most recent AAP guidelines.

Teaching Pearls You Should Know
Upon completion of this session, using data and results from clinical trials and referenced EBM, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Use test characteristics such as positive predictive value to interpret diagnostic test results.
• Order diagnostic tests appropriately by considering risks and benefits.
• Apply key teaching points to enhance the management of specific diagnostic conditions.

Managing Animal Bites
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Identify those bites that are at particular risk of infection.
• Summarize the arguments for and against the use of prophylactic antibiotics in specific bite wounds.
• Match specific infecting organisms with the biting animal.
• Provide animal bite prevention strategies for your patient families.
• Apply ACIP and AAP guidelines when providing Rabies and Tetanus immunizations to patients who have sustained an animal bite.

Management of Acute Asthma
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Apply evidence from the Cochrane Database to make decisions about utilizing either nebulizers or metered-dose inhalers with spacers to deliver beta2-agonists to appropriate candidates.
• Summarize the evidence supporting the use of ipratropium bromide and corticosteroids for moderately ill asthmatic children.
• Develop an organized approach to the initial management of children with severe asthma.

Improving Medical Decision Making: Patient Safety and Strategies to Avoid Diagnostic Errors
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Acknowledge that relying on pattern recognition and memory and making snap judgments may lead to diagnostic errors.
• Explain the cognitive errors that physicians make most frequently.
• Develop an approach to medical decision-making that will help prevent committing diagnostic errors.

3 Day
The Febrile Young Infant (Birth – 2 months)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Evaluate and treat the febrile infant who is less than eight weeks of age.
• Summarize those serious bacterial infections for which the febrile infant is at risk.
• Appraise recent data suggesting that a subset of low-risk febrile infants may be managed as outpatients, without CSF analysis, as per Guidelines for managing the well-appearing infant.

Ingested and Aspirated Foreign Bodies
Upon completion of this session, using evidence-based medicine from the CDC and other sites, the participant should be able to: COMP, EBM
• Distinguish the differences in clinical presentation between ingested and aspirated foreign bodies in children.
• Select appropriate imaging strategies for the detection of ingested and aspirated foreign bodies and subsequent indications for specialty consultation.
• Relate the most common complications associated with ingested and aspirated foreign bodies.

Infants Behaving Badly
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Develop a complete differential diagnosis for critically ill infants.
• Summarize the key management strategies in actual cases of infants presenting to a pediatric emergency department as per the referenced EBM and Guidelines.
• Administer appropriate diagnostic studies in the evaluation and management of infants with interesting and uncommon diagnoses.

Approach to the Febrile Young Child
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Develop appropriate management strategies for febrile young children (2-24 months).
• Determine which febrile young children are at low risk for serious infections, using evidence-based guidelines.
• Assess the role of recent evidence and vaccination programs when evaluating occult infections in febrile young children.

Upper Extremity Fractures in Children
Upon completion of this session, using clinical practice guidelines, to include the Salter-Harris Fracture Classifications, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Develop an age-appropriate evaluation of upper extremity fractures in children.
• Detect common upper extremity fractures using common diagnostic and radiographic techniques.
• Evaluate indications for emergent and outpatient orthopedic consultation in children with upper extremity injuries.

4 Day
Antimicrobial Stewardship Approaches for Common Outpatient Infections
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Outline the principles of antimicrobial stewardship as they relate to outpatient emergency department infections.
• Recognize the most effective approaches to promoting antimicrobial stewardship in the outpatient setting
• Develop antibiotic treatment strategies for outpatient emergency department infections consistent with antimicrobial stewardship principles and guidelines.

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in the Era of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA): An Evidence-Based Approach
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Detect common skin and soft tissue infections potentially caused by CA-MRSA in children.
• Construct a diagnostic approach to common CA-MRSA infections using the most recent pediatric evidence and national guidelines.
• Use recent evidence to develop appropriate management strategies for CA-MRSA infections.
• Construct an informed approach to antibiotic therapy for skin and soft tissue infections.

Pain Management in the Office and ED
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Employ the American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of Emergency Physicians fasting guidelines for procedural sedation.
• Manage the pain associated with specific illnesses or injuries commonly seen in an office setting.
• Manage the pain and sedation needs of children with specific illnesses or injuries commonly seen in an ED.

Evaluation and Management of Dehydration in Children
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Determine the degree of dehydration in children using common clinical findings.
• Relate appropriate indications for laboratory evaluation and intravenous fluid therapy for dehydrated children.
• Describe the various methods of rehydration for children.
• Utilize current evidence to understand the role of anti-emetics and oral rehydration therapy in the treatment of children with dehydration.

No Time to Waste – Surgical Emergencies in Children
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Based on a child’s presenting signs and symptoms suggestive of a surgical emergency, make rapid management decisions based on referenced Evidence-Based Medicine and validated clinical prediction rules.
• Administer appropriate diagnostic studies in the evaluation of children with surgical emergencies.
• Avoid activities that will result in a delayed diagnosis for children with surgical emergencies.