Critical care and pulmonary medicine

April 04, 2008

TIMING April 28 – May 2, 2008 (8:00am-12:15pm)

Location: Hyatt Sarasota, Florida

Price: $625.00 - $775.00

MEMBER
by Glenn Eiger, M.D., F.C.C.P. - Associate Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program and Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA and Gregory Tino, M.D., F.C.C.P. - Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Chief, Pulmonary Clinical Service, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
The overall objective is to provide the participant with practical and clinically relevant information. Upon completion of this CME activity, the physician or healthcare provider should be able to describe the current approach to formulating differential diagnoses, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive management of the various disciplines presented.

NEEDS STATEMENT:
There is a need to maintain and improve the clinical skills of the Primary Care Practitioner in Pulmonary Medicine due to the fact that new treatments for Asthma, CAP, TB, PE/DVT, Sleep Disorders and Critical Care Medicine are rapidly developing and available. This CME activity addresses these needs and satisfies the need to improve the abilities of practitioners to diagnose, treat and properly refer necessary pulmonary conditions. Greater reliance on clinical skills and knowledge and less reliance on unnecessary testing and specialty referral will help improve the continuity of patient care while curtailing the rising costs of medical care today.

Day 1 “Nuts and Bolts” of Pulmonary Function Testing – The Basics. Asthma Update. COPD - Overview of Patient Management – Parts I & II.

Day 2 Disorders of Sleep – Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Others. Pleural Diseases. Approach to the Patient with Chronic Cough. Preoperative Pulmonary Assessment.

Day 3 Approach to Acid-Base Disturbances. Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation. Shock and Hemodynamic Monitoring. Critical Care Cases for Review, Part I.

Day 4 Critical Care Cases for Review, Part II. Community Acquired Pneumonia. Tuberculosis. Lung Cancer..

Day 5 Hemoptysis. Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease. Interstitial Lung Diseases – The Basics. Pulmonary Cases for Review.