2021 Maryland ACEP Chapter Educational Conference & Annual Meeting
Target Audience
Emergency physicians, emergency residents, advanced practice providers, emergency nurses and pre-hospital providers.
Program Description
This course is being presented to update emergency medicine personnel on current issues pertaining to cardiology, billing/coding, diabetic keto acidosis, point of care ultrasound, and pediatric care. The program will consist of live virtual presentations by expert faculty. Each session will include a question and answer period.
- Discuss black box warnings on drugs frequently used in the emergency department
- Identify appropriate use of black box drugs in specific patients
- Discuss critical documentation needed when choosing to use black box drugs
- Manage and understand the challenging & debilitating condition of cyclic vomiting syndrome
- Describe some of the recent advances in hyperglycemia
- Discuss pearls and potential pitfalls to avoid peril in the pediatric patient in DKA
- Identify the “masqueraders” of abdominal pain using a case-based approach
- Learn how to handle cyclic vomiting syndrome
- Describe the potential detrimental impact of practicing emergency medicine with burnout
- Define the common dangers associated with cardiotoxicities of cancer drugs
- Consider factors for patients who have undergone various cancer therapies
- Review relevant pathophysiology, point-of-care echo findings, and management of HFrEF and HFpEF
- Discuss the relevant pathophysiology as it relates to diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism
- Recognize the potential impact of alcohol ketoacidosis
- Identify the keys to resuscitation and management of substance induced psychosis
- Recognize symptoms of a psychotic episode secondary to illicit drug use
- Describe the sprain, a fracture and how these matter in the emergency department
- Discuss commonly mismanaged orthopedic injuries in the emergency department
- Discuss the benefits of an echocardiography
- Discuss utility of echocardiography to diagnose reversible causes of cardiac arrest
- Define simple approaches to avoid burnout and regain fulfillment in our lives as well as our work
- Recognize and appreciate the legal and moral obligations of an informed consent
- Identify barriers of informed consent while delivering the best patient care
- Identify the benefits of TEE in cardiac arrest
- Discuss TEE vs TTE
- Define how workplace violence impacts emergency department staff
- Discuss violence in the workplace strategies
- Understand violence in the emergency department and the laws that keep you safe