Caring For An Aging Patient Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Palliative Care

Caring For An Aging Patient Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Palliative Care is organized by Sea Courses Cruises and would be held during Jan 5 - 9, 2016 at 14 Night NEW ZEALAND CME Cruise - Sydney, NSW.
This CME conferences has been approved with 34.00AMA PRA Category 1TM Credit.
Program
GERIATRICS
• Office Assessment of Cognitive Impairment
• The Grey Tsunami and you: sink or swim (understanding the phenomenology of frailty)
• Assessing driving competency in seniors
• Falls in the elderly: an office-based approach
• Failure to thrive: Identifying frail seniors who are failing
• Clinical perils in residential care
• "Old folks at home" - Fostering the House Call
• The Pearls of Community Geriatrics
• How to enhance the management of complexity

ENDOCRINOLOGY
• Thyroid disease in the elderly: Hyper and Hypo thyroidism
• Osteoporosis: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Diabetes in the Elderly: Targets and Compliance
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Hypogonadism in men
• Lipid lowering update: new agents and when to use

PALLIATIVE CARE
• Spotting palliative Patients in the Wild
- recognizing which patients may benefit from a palliative approach
• Opioid prescribing made ridiculously simple
- how to use short and long acting opioids effectively
• Nausea, Vomiting and Bowel and Biliary Blockages
- how to manage N and V, and bowel obstruction
• Respiratory symptoms
- managing dyspnea and cough
• Care of Malignant Wounds
- learn tricks to address pain, odour, bleeding of malignant wounds
• Delirium - recognizing delirium as an emergency, and how to treat
• Final Days - recognizing when the end is near an d how to manage
• Case study in the End-of-Life care in chronic disease