Emergency Medicine Review Eastern Caribbean Cruise

The purpose of this activity is to review the acute management of traumatic injuries, poisonings and other emergency conditions for physicians.

Learning objectives:

•Discuss the pathophysiology of carbon monoxide poisoning
•Summarize the literature supporting the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
•Construct management algorithms for the treatment of the CO poisoned patient
•Describe common marine trauma (bites, stings, hazards)
•Discuss treatment options for specific marine hazards
•Appreciate key visual findings associated with many specific illnesses
•Review the fundamentals of examining and diagnosing the poisoned patient
•Discuss appropriate strategies for managing the common toxicologic emergencies
•Analyze some common and interesting cases in which a poisoned patient presented to the emergency department
•Introduce the listeners to some of the new, and up-and-coming recreational drugs of abuse
•Discuss a few of the common yet complicated hematologic emergencies
•Develop a simplified approach to a very complicated topic
•Analyze some difficult cases in hematology
•Discuss a few of the common yet complicated oncologic emergencies
•Develop a simplified approach to a very complicated topic
•Analyze some difficult cases in oncology patients presenting to the Emergency Department