OVERVIEW

Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges is organized by American Medical Seminars (AMS), Inc. and will be held from Jun 19 - 22, 2023.

Course Outline:
Day 1
Facial Trauma (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to COMP
• Perform a quick screen and a thorough evaluation of the patient with facial trauma.
• Outline the challenges in safeguarding the respiratory tract in a client with a facial injury.
• Describe the indicator for different imaging treatments for facial trauma.
• Handle injuries to the soft cells of the face (lips, tongue, eyelids ...).

Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Assess the range of the trouble of drug-drug communications as it refers to both the outpatient and emergency setups.
• Explore interactions between prescription and non-prescription drugs and evaluate their treatments in the context of the Beers Criteria.
• Evaluation of usual drug-drug interactions as well as their complications commonly seen in the emergency room.

Neuromuscular Weakness (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to COMP
• Discriminate between professional entities creating neuromuscular weakness, including Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenia gravis, and others.
• Provide strategies for discriminating between practical and natural weak points.
• Compare and Contrast upper and also reduced electric motor neuron condition.

Influenza, COVID-19 and Pandemics (Amorosa)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, EBM, COMP
• Appraise COVID-19 Diagnostic testing.
• Understand present inpatient and outpatient treatment and monitoring techniques for COVID-19.
• COVID-19 and flu injection evaluation.

Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Respiratory Tract Infections, Acute Pharyngitis, and Sinusitis (Amorosa)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Evaluate the epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia.
• Create the differential diagnosis and utilize details monitoring when diagnosing community-acquired pneumonia.
• Assess the rising incidence of resistance and use alternative therapies when shown.
• Establish the duty of antibiotics in bronchitis.
• Identify the reasoning for antibiotic guidelines.
• Establish the attributes and forecasters that lead your diagnostic testing of severe pharyngitis.
• Apply the best courses of treatment and overall management based on pharyngitis treatment guidelines.
• Create a structure for therapy and antibiotic recommendations for intense sinus problems.

Day 2
Approach to the Patient with Fever and Rash (Amorosa)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to COMP
• Describe the etiology of generally seen infectious and non-infectious breakouts related to fever.
• Establish a differential diagnosis based upon the sort of breakout on presentation.
• Acknowledge the situations in which emergent therapy of fever/rash is warranted.

Soft Tissue and Bone Infections (Amorosa)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, EBM, COMP
• Create a strategy to making the diagnosis of common skin and also soft cells infections
• Evaluate typical infections to include streptococcal as well as staphylococcal infections as well as necrotizing fasciitis, diabetic foot infections, attack injury infections, and also bone as well as joint infections.
• Apply ideal treatment and monitoring of these generally seen infections and decide when the expert recommendation is shown based on the existing IDSA Guidelines for skin as well as soft tissue infections.

Ophthalmologic Emergencies (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Create a formula for the differential medical diagnosis of the red eye.
• Develop a diagnostic strategy for unexpected monocular and binocular loss of sight.
• Evaluation the therapy plans for rising sensory problems, consisting of glaucoma, as well as retinal blood vessel and artery occlusions as per the American Academy of Ophthalmology's recommended practice pattern standards.
• Develop a treatment approach for ocular injury.

Trauma and Orthopedic Pitfalls – Injuries Not to Be Missed (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to COMP
• Find refined injuries that, unless treated, can affect long-lasting musculoskeletal function.
• Determine and deal with the refined presentation of severe stressful and neurologic injuries.
• Distinguish particular injury patterns to prevent missing out on associated injuries in a traumatically hurt client.

Endocrine Emergencies (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Create, utilizing the most recent evidence and the ADA setting statement, a detailed treatment prepared for diabetic person ketoacidosis (DKA).
• Compare as well as compare DKA and hyperosmolar non-ketotic states (HHNK).
• Find adrenal insufficiency and develop an efficient treatment plan.
• Construct treatment algorithms according to the AACE standards for the management of thyrotoxicosis, hyperthyroidism, and also thyroid storm.

Day 3
Is This Test Necessary: Efficient Use of Testing in the Emergency Department (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Establish practical decision-making abilities for using the readily available proof for using some frequently utilized laboratory & radiographic tests in the ED based on the COC assistance and recommendations.
• Figure out the utility of some less commonly used examinations in the ED, including strep examinations, D-dimers, and coagulation tests.
• Examine situation circumstances to go over maximizing individual treatment while decreasing unneeded prices.

Management of the Emergency Psychiatric Patient (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Identify the early signs of agitation and utilize techniques to fix them.
• Select appropriate representatives for chemical restriction based on readily available proof.
• Utilizing ACEP standards as a framework, establish a prepare for the medical clearance of a psychiatric patient.

A Walk in the Woods: Ticks and Tickborne Illness (Lane)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Learn about the different varieties of ticks, their range, life cycles, and how they interact with mammals.
• Choose the proper treatment for a patient who recently got a tick bite.
• Review and comprehend the various tick-borne diseases and evidence-based treatment strategies.
• Review the tick-borne illnesses' long-term ramifications.

Anemia Top Ten (Lane)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to COMP
• Understand the terms and definitions of anemia.
• Identify the different types of anemia.
• Check out the dynamic choice on transfusion.
• Await the transfusion conversation with patients and family members.

Hypertensive Emergencies (Lane)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, GL, COMP
• Define both Hypertensive Necessity and Hypertensive Emergency Situation.
• Evaluation of the effect of end-organ and also possible results.
• Understand the medical management of hypertensive emergencies utilizing evidence-based medication.
• Review admission standards utilizing existing standards.
• Explore an approach to asymptomatic high blood pressure.

Day 4
Asthma Update (Lane)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: GL, COMP
• Understand severity conclusions and also interpretations.
• Understand the screening alternatives and also their worth in different circumstances.
• Design a conventional treatment prepare for moderate to modest seriousness bronchial asthma using present guidelines.
• Know the supplemental choices for extreme asthma exacerbation.
• Evaluation of access signs and discharge practice.

EM Speed Training + Against Medical Advice (Lane)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to COMP
• Identify techniques for accelerating patient care in an urgent or emergency room scenario.
• Act as the type of doctor you want to treat your family.
• Examine speeding tactics for unique situations.
• Describe the difficulties that arise when patients go against medical advice.
• Offer advice on how to handle the AMA discharge.
• Highlight and concern typical AMA concerns from doctors.

UTI and Pyelonephritis (Lane)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: EBM, COMP
• Define Easy vs. Complex UTI as well as Pyelonephritis
• Evaluation of the epidemiology, threat variables, and microbiology related to both UTI and Pyelonephritis
• Understand the scope of clinical presentation for both UTI as well as Pyelonephritis
• Acknowledge the offered diagnostic devices utilized in evaluating UTI and Pyelonephritis.
• Prepare a treatment plan that is practical and effective for both UTI and Pyelonephritis.

Abdominal Pain – The Black Box of the Belly (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, GL
• Evaluation of some tough instances of abdominal pain to aid in differentiating benign from severe abdominal pain.
• Assess the utility of different tests, consisting of labs, ultrasound, and CT scan, including during pregnancy using the ACOG opinion guidelines, in diagnosing stomach pain.
• Determine refined attributes of specific discussions of stomach discomfort that suggest a different extreme cause.
• Explore diagnoses of abdominal discomfort in the absence of stomach pathology.

Coagulopathy in the ER: All Bleeding Stops Eventually (Kravitz)
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: COMP, EBM
• Recognize the various presentations of coagulopathy in the ED and classify them accordingly.
• Create an evaluation and treatment strategy for non-traumatic bleeding disorders in the emergency department, such as hemophilia, TTP, ITP, and others.
• Describe the justification and indications for using blood products in the care of bleeding patients.
• Discuss some of the more recent anticoagulants being used today, such as prasugrel (Effient) and dabigatran (Pradaxa), using the references from the RCTs and EBM studies Rocket, RE-LY, and Einstein..