Upcoming Medical Conferences in Las Vegas

Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) Course is organized by Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) Education Programs and will be held from Aug 23 - 24, 2018 at Mountain View Medical Associates, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 14.0 Contact Hours. Trauma Care After Resuscitation (TCAR) Education Programs is to expand the knowledge base and clinical reasoning skills of nurses who work with injured patients anywhere along the trauma continuum of care, particularly in the post-resuscitation phase. By partnering with trauma centers and trauma systems, TCAR Education Programs provides adult and pediatric inpatient nurses an outstanding learning experience designed to meet educational goals, improve patient outcomes, and fulfill regulatory requirements. Course Objectives : By the end of this class, participants will be able to: • Describe the trauma continuum of care. • Explain the biomechanics of common injuries. • Anticipate specific wounds and complications based on mechanism of injury information. • Discuss the body's multisystem responses to traumatic insults. • Incorporate physical assessment, imaging studies, and laboratory data to evaluate the hospitalized trauma patient. • Describe appropriate medical, surgical, and nursing interventions for frequently encountered injuries. • Interact with interdisciplinary team members to provide timely care to injured patients. • Prevent, identify, and manage complications common to the hospitalized trauma patient. • Identify realistic trauma patient goals and evaluate care outcomes. • Address the psychosocial needs of hospitalized trauma patients and their family members. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

American Society of Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians (ASATT) Educational Conference is organized by American Society of Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians (ASATT) and will be held from Aug 23 - 26, 2018 at Bally's Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Certificate Course; 2-Day Intensive Training is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Aug 23 - 24, 2018 at The Platinum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Counselors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Mental Health Professionals, Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 clock hours. Conference Description : Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an empirically validated approach for working with mental health, chemical dependency, and complex co-morbidity. Designed to empower clients to establish mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, DBT assists clinicians in treating clients with emotional problems, suicidal, self-harm, and self-sabotaging urges and behaviors, and challenging interpersonal styles. Attend this 2-day certificate course and receive a detailed understanding and foundation of the skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as applied to clients with mental health and chemical dependency issues. Going beyond symptom management, these skills are designed to improve functioning to build satisfying lives. This course explores DBT’s theoretical basis, specific DBT interventions, and how to teach skills in individual and group settings. Familiarity with these skills and techniques along with experiential exercises will enhance your clinical skills and professional development. Guided by the latest research and policy in evidence-based practices, this course teaches the clinical process and content of DBT from theory to practice. Going beyond prescriptive applications, this course shows you how to use essentials such as validation, dialectical strategies, communication styles, and the best ways of changing behaviors in order to effectively balance acceptance and change with your clients. Complete with education on user-friendly diary cards and chain analysis protocols, you will leave this seminar with increased DBT competency as well as many new tools including client worksheets to bring to your clinical practice. Conference Objectives are : • Integrate the theory and techniques of DBT into your clinical practice. • Teach DBT skills in the areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness. • Incorporate how to integrate DBT skills for individual and group therapy treatment. • Utilize DBT skills for treating mental health symptoms, chemical dependency and complex co-morbidity. • Designate additional tools and resources for implementing DBT in a clinical setting. • Articulate a variety of strategies for teaching DBT skills to clients. • Recommend how to seamlessly integrate DBT skills into individual therapy. • Discriminate the DBT model from cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other treatment modalities. • Practice a multi-layered approach to validation of clients’ thoughts and feelings. • Employ DBT diary cards and chain (change) analysis in clinical practice. • Propose how to operate with consultative groups and treatment teams. • Assess and manage self-injurious and suicidal behaviors with clear protocols and safety plans.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) 2018 Annual Meeting is organized by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) and will be held from Aug 24 - 27, 2018 at South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

All-on-4 & More: Fixed And Removable Full Arch Restorations For Patients With Ailing & Failing Teeth is organized by LVI Global and will be held from Aug 26 - 28, 2018 at LVI Main Campus, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 22 CE Credits. Educational Objectives: The educational objectives for this course are for the participants to be able to: • Utilize surgical & prosthetic techniques for “All-on-4” prosthesis • Treatment plan & sequence comprehensive cases. • Utilize step-by-step method of building physiologic dentures in 3-4 appointments. • Instruct auxiliaries to perform delegatable tasks. • Choose options for implant retained and implant supported prosthetics Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Hygiene: Advanced Technologies is organized by LVI Global and will be held from Aug 27 - 29, 2018 at LVI Main Campus, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 22 CE Credits. Course Description : This course is designed to optimize your LVI journey by identifying missing links in your practice and enhancing the return on your LVI educational investment by boosting your practice’s hygiene efficiency. The “mouth-body” connection can take your practice to the next level, by presenting opportunities to streamline your hygiene department while integrating the ultimate in comprehensive patient care. Course Objectives: • Discuss the latest technologies and proven scientific findings to treat periodontal disease. • Discuss the connection between periodontal health and its systemic implications. • Effectively risk-assess a patient’s condition to determine optimal treatment planning. • Deliver a treatment plan and comprehensive case presentation based on the six screenings. • Demonstrate and bring consistency to risk assessment, oral cancer screening, restorative screening, occlusal screening, sleep apnea screening and periodontal screening. • Create better understanding of the patient’s wants and needs using persuasive verbal skills. • Discuss TMD Dentistry and the importance of healthy occlusion. • Discuss the use of laser theory and application as well as clinical adaptation of micro-ultrasonics. • Identify the newest restorative materials and how to care for them. • Create continuity within your hygiene department of the patient care system.

22nd Annual National Emergency Medicine Board Review Course is organized by The Center for Medical Education, Inc and will be held from Aug 27 - 30, 2018 at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is emergency physicians who are required to take their certification or recertification exams. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 34.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Course Description : This is a Highly Regarded Course Which Has Helped Tens of Thousands of Emergency Medicine Physicians Pass Their Qualifying and ConCert Exams. This is a four-day, 34.75-hour total immersion "boot-camp" in the factual database of emergency medicine. The goal of the course to help participants pass their exams—drives the content. At the conclusion, participants, through repetition, will have learned the key information needed to pass emergency medicine qualifying and ConCert examinations. Course Objectives are : • Comprehensively review the core content of emergency medicine • Identify the fundamental concepts and key topics needed to successfully complete the emergency medicine initial written certification and recertification examinations • Effectively translate the acquired knowledge into practice, improving diagnostics and therapeutic strategies to positively impact patient care Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Core V - Beginning of Physiologic Rehabilitation Case is organized by LVI Global and will be held from Aug 29 - 31, 2018 at Las Vegas Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 44 CE Credits+ protocol. Course Description : This six-day, live-patient treatment program is designed to show you how life-changing your dentistry can be. This course addresses the handling of more complex cases (bruxers, restoring vertical dimension, restoring severely dark teeth without subgingival margins, creating biologic politics that appear to be growing out of tissue, etc.) treating function as well as aesthetics. Perhaps the most important aspect of the program is; understanding why cases succeed, why they fail and how to prevent that failure before it happens. You are expected to leave with an understanding of why so many people need this type of treatment. Fine tune your skill and take your cases from good to outstanding. Course Objectives are : • Manage difficult cases such as bruxers, restoration of vertical dimension, and restoring severely dark teeth. • Address problems associated with a need for occlusal stabilization. • Define and utilize techniques for subtle porcelain contouring and chair-side customization before and after final placement. • Implement management principles, case presentation skills, and good diagnosis and treatment planning. • Identify appropriate marketing procedures for your practice. • Define advanced cosmetic and soft tissue procedures with all-tissue laser technology. • Educate team and patients about the power of TMD Dentistry.

Treating Insomnia: Evidence-Based Strategies to Help Your Clients Sleep is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Aug 29, 2018 at The Platinum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists Therapists, Addiction Counselors Marriage and Family Therapists Case Managers, Nurses Other Mental Health Professionals. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Course Description: One of the biggest mistakes you as a clinician can make is NOT asking about the client’s sleeping habits. We all know the necessity of sleep – especially for those who are depressed, anxious, obsessively worried, or in chronic pain – yet often we overlook this. And worse, we think there’s nothing we can do to help them. Join me, Meg Danforth Lineberger, and I’ll show you successful, proven techniques I’ve developed over nearly 20 years on how to optimize your clients sleep – without medication! Discover evidence-based strategies to help your clients increase energy during the day, sleep more deeply, and re-initiate sleep after hot flashes, panic attacks or nightmares. The strategies I will show you can be easily integrated into existing treatment for depression, chronic pain, trauma and anxiety. Take the next step and join me today, I will help you learn new assessment tools, step-by-step CBT, and counter-arousal strategies that your client can immediately use. My engaging workshop will include discussion of case vignettes, experiential exercises, examples of sleep logs and other tools to use in your clinical practice. Course Objectives: • Select assessment tools that screen for other sleep disorders and identify insomnia treatment targets as it relates to case conceptualization. • Teach clients about the science of sleep, causes of chronic insomnia, and the impact on overall mental health. • Explore three models of CBT-I delivery and implementation issues for different practice settings. • Specify why CBT-I is effective for clients with co-occurring issues such as pain, depression, anxiety or trauma. • Set-up treatment strategies that clients can easily implement to manage fatigue. • Collaboratively design a sleep schedule with clients using a sleep diary to improve client's sleep efficiency and daytime functioning.

EKG Interpretation Seminar: Diagnostic Skills for Myocardial Ischemia, Infarction, Current Treatment Strategies and Lead Selection for Atrial Fibrillation is organized by Northwest Anesthesia Seminars (NWAS) and will be held on Sep 03, 2018 at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is physicians, certified registered nurse anesthetists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses and other medical care providers who must maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of the specialty or are impacted by it. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Conference Objectives are : • Review the 12-lead EKG system, the normal morphology of the EKG waveforms, and options for lead placement. • Define the criteria for assessing evidence of myocardial ischemia, injury, and infarction, including the limitations of the EKG. • Review the classic placement of chest leads and limb leads as well as discuss legitimate variations available for EKG lead placement for surgical and postoperative patients. • Apply the criteria for the diagnosis of supraventricular arrhythmias (e.g., sinus bradycardia, atrial tachycardia, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation, and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome). • Explain the treatment guidelines for supraventricular arrhythmias. • Apply the criteria for the diagnosis of first-degree heart block, second-degree heart block (Mobitz I & II), and third-degree heart block with a junctional escape or ventricular escape rhythm. • Discuss the treatment of AV nodal and infranodal arrhythmias. • Apply the criteria for the diagnosis of ventricular arrhythmias (e.g., torsade de pointes, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation. • Discuss the recommended treatment for ventricular arrhythmias. • Diagnose faculty-presented EKG rhythm strips and 12 Lead EKGs, reviewing the criteria by which each was identified. • Clarify the material presented throughout the day through questions and answers and discuss participants’ concerns for application in their own clinical settings.