High Risk Emergency Medicine San Francisco 2016

Overview:

High Risk Emergency Medicine is a course designed to address those topics that, due to the risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure, produce the greatest anxiety and concern in the daily practice of emergency medicine. Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, nationally renowned for emergency medical and trauma care, this conference will meet the needs of the practitioner who encounters a high-risk condition in their daily medical practice. This includes practicing emergency physicians as well as internists, family practitioners, and others who practice in an urgent care, high risk, or emergency department setting.

Objectives:

The objectives of this conference are to improve competence and performance in diagnosis, application of current treatment recommendations, and patient counseling for these common conditions:

• Management of cardiac emergencies;
• Diagnosis and resuscitation of critically injured trauma patients;
• Diagnosis and management of toxicologic and environmental emergencies;
• Ultrasound-guided resuscitation;
• Adherence to best practices in emergency procedures;
• Dizziness, stroke, and patients with agitation;
• Management of pediatric fever, respiratory difficulty, neonatal resuscitation, head trauma, and procedures;
• Practices for diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- The General Session includes 20.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.
- Optional workshops include up to 6.00 additional AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM .

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

This course qualifies for up to 20.75 hours of the ABEM 8 hours per year requirement for self-assessment CME.

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Family Physicians: This Live activity, High Risk Emergency Medicine San Francisco 2016, with a beginning date of 06/09/2016, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 20.5 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Emergency Physicians: This activity is approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 26.75 ACEP Category I credits.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category 1 Credit^TM for the PRA for organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pain Management and End-of-Life Care: Approved credits include up to 4.00 from the General Session toward meeting the requirement under California Assembly Bill 487, Pain Management and End-of-Life Care.

Trauma: Approved credits include up to 7.50 from the General Session toward satisfying the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma requirement for trauma related continuing medical education.

Course Outline:

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016
OPTIONAL CADAVER WORKSHOPS
Improve your procedural skills in the most realistic setting possible
($425 additional fee per person, limited registration)

8:30 am – 11:30 am
Airway and Ultrasound-guided and Landmark-based Vascular Access
• Hands-on basic and advanced airway management using direct and video laryngoscopy, LMA rescue, video-assisted intubation through LMA.
• Vascular access using ultrasound guidance and landmark based techniques as well as intra-osseous access.

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Critical Care Procedures and Ortho Procedures
• Cricothyroidotomy, chest tubes, pericardiocentesis, emergency thoracotomy, lateral canthotomy.
• US and landmarked based nerve blocks and joint aspirations.

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016

7:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

7:15 Course Overview
Dr. Jeff Tabas & Dr. Jackie Nemer

7:30 TP Pediatric Procedure Pearls
Dr. Aaron Kornblith

8:00 TP Pediatric Head Trauma: Approach to Imaging and Management
Dr. Judith Klein

8:30 Deadly Derm: ED Approach to Pediatric Rash
Dr. Jeff Bullard-Berent

9:00 TP Pediatric Chest and Abdominal Trauma: Avoiding the Pan Scan
Dr. Judith Klein

9:30 Coffee Break

9:45 TP Approaching the Anxious or Fearful Child with Success
Dr. Israel Green-Hopkins

10:15 TP Video Laryngoscopy – Pearls and Pitfalls
Dr. Guy Shochat

10:45 T Missed Injuries on Plain Films
Dr. Eric Silman

11:15 Keynote Address: A View from the Finish Line
Dr. Michael Callaham

11:45 Lunch (On Your Own)

1:15 pm T Challenging Trauma Cases
Panelists:
Dr. Alan Gelb
Dr. Robert Rodriguez
Dr. Peter Sokolove
Dr. Mitchell Cohen

2:15 T Resuscitation After Trauma
Dr. Mitchell Cohen

2:45 Large Vessel Stroke – Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. S. Andrew Josephson

3:15 Coffee Break

3:30 Dizzyness
Dr. S. Andrew Josephson

4:00 Cardiac Stress Testing Made Simple
Dr. Jeff Tabas

4:30 pm Adjourn

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

7:00 am Continental Breakfast

7:30 TP The Agitated Patient Whisperer
Dr. James Hardy

8:30 EM Myths and Controversies: An Evidence-based Approach
Dr. Jahan Fahimi

9:00 What Drugs Is Your Teenager Abusing?
Dr. Annie Arens

9:30 Coffee Break

9:45 T Life-threatening Bleeding on Anticoagulants
Dr. Annie Arens

10:15 T Critical Actions to Prepare an ED for Disaster
Dr. Clement Yeh

10:45 Gastric Decontamination
Dr. Sonny Tat

11:15 Critical ECG Findings of Ischemia
Dr. Amal Mattu

11:45 Lunch (On Your Own)

1:15 pm Case Reviews in Missed ACS
Dr. Amal Mattu

2:15 Emerging Indications for Cath Lab Activation
Dr. Amal Mattu

2:45 Coffee Break

3:00 Pitfalls in Ventricular Arrhythmias
Dr. Amal Mattu

3:30 Abdominal Vascular Emergencies
Dr. Brian Lin

4:00 Winning at Heart Failure
Dr. Amal Mattu

4:30 pm Adjourn

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

7:00 am Continental Breakfast

7:30 Urine Trouble – Treatment of UTI
Dr. Gregory Moran

8:00 LLSA Highlights
Dr. Paul Jhun

8:30 Emerging Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria
Dr. Gregory Moran

9:00 T Maximizing Vascular US Imaging
Dr. William Shyy

9:30 Coffee Break

9:45 Nonsurgical Treatment of Appendicitis
Dr. Gregory Moran

10:15 Learning from Online and Social Media
Dr. Michelle Lin

10:45 Treatment Issues with Soft Tissues
Dr. Gregory Moran

11:15 ALiEM Clinical Pearls and Pitfalls
Dr. Kory London

11:45 Lunch (On Your Own)

1:15 pm Illness and Infections in Pregnancy
Dr. Charlotte Wills

2:15 TP Spinal Trauma Cases
Dr. William Whetstone

2:45 Coffee Break

3:00 Dangerous Drug Interactions in Emergency Medicine
Dr. Zlatan Coralic

3:30 Ultrasound for Soft Tissue Infections
Dr. R. Starr Knight

4:00 pm Adjourn

This course qualifies for up to 20.75 hours of the ABEM 8 hours per year requirement for self-assessment CME.

P Satisfies California requirement for CME in Pain / End of Life Care

T Satisfies American College of Surgeon requirements for CME in trauma

Chairs:

Jeffrey A. Tabas, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director of Outcomes and Innovations,
Office of Continuing Medical Education

Jacqueline A. Nemer, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director of Advanced Clinical Skills

Faculty:
(All Faculty are from UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital unless otherwise noted.)

Annie Arens, MD
Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine

Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine

Michael Callaham, MD
Professor of Emergency
Medicine; Editor in Chief,
Annals of Emergency Medicine;
Member, National Academy of Medicine

Mitchell Jay Cohen, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery In
Residence, Department of Surgery; Associate Trauma
Medical Director; Director of Trauma Research,
San Francisco General Hospital

Zlatan Coralic, PharmD, BCPS
Emergency Medicine Clinical
Pharmacist; Assistant Professor
of Pharmacy and Emergency
Medicine

Jahan Fahimi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Alan Gelb, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine

Israel Green-Hopkins, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

James C. Hardy, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Paul Jhun, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

S. Andrew Josephson, MD
Professor of Neurology

Judith Klein, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

R. Starr Knight, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Emergency Ultrasound Director,
San Francisco General Hospital

Aaron Kornblith, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

Brian Lin, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF;
Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco

Michelle Lin, MD
Professor of Emergency
Medicine; Academy Endowed
Chair for EM Education

Kory London, MD
Instructor, Thomas Jefferson
Emergency Medicine
Department, Philadelphia, PA

Heather Mahoney, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Amal Mattu, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine,
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Gregory Moran, MD
Professor of Emergency
Medicine, University of California
Los Angeles

Arun Nagdev, MD
Director of Emergency
Ultrasound, Ultrasound
Fellowship Director, Alameda
Health System – Highland
Hospital; Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine

Jeanne Noble, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Residency Program Simulation
Director

Robert M. Rodriguez, MD
Professor of Emergency
Medicine; Residency Research
Director

Guy N. Shochat, MD
Associate Professor of
Emergency Medicine; Director
of Emergency Airway

William Shyy, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Eric Silman, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Assistant Residency Program
Director

Peter Sokolove, MD
Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine

Sonny Tat, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

William Whetstone, MD
Professor of Emergency
Medicine

Charlotte P. Wills, MD
Residency Program Director,
Alameda Health System –
Highland Hospital; Associate
Professor of Emergency Medicine

Clement Yeh, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine;
Medical Director, San Francisco
Fire Department

Travel & Lodging:

Hotel Nikko
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Hotel Phone: 415-394-1111
Reservations: 800-248-3308
Rates: $279.00 Deluxe Room (Single or Double)
Cutoff Date: 5/12/16 or once room block fills

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