Emergency Medicine and Critical Care by Continuing Education, Inc

Emergency Medicine and Critical Care is organized by Continuing Education, Inc and will be held during May 06 - 13, 2018 at 7-Night Western Caribbean Cruise Conference Round-trip Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Topics:
• Recognition and assessment of the critically ill patient
• Participants will be able to appreciate the parameters that define a critically ill patient and will be able to describe a general approach to the acute care of these patients.
• New developments in the management of pulmonary hypertension.
• Participants will be able to describe the main elements of the pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension and describe some of the treatments available.
• The ethics of futility- what is futile care and how do we approach management of the critically ill patient in whom ongoing care is futile.
• After the talk, participants will have the tools to define futile care and be able to discuss the approach to management of terminal critically ill patients.
• Intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH)- what this means in the critically ill patient and how do we manage mechanical ventilation for the patient with IAH.
• This talk provides an approach to the recognition and treatment of intra-abdominal hypertension, as well as an approach to optimal ventilation when IAH is present.
• The problem with evidence-based medicine
• This talk allows the doctor to recognize and appreciate some of the pitfalls and to place evidence-based medicine (EBM) in perspective.
• Strategies to manage the difficult airway.
• This talk provides some strategies to deal with the expected and unexpected difficult airway ? participants should have a clear idea of the range of options available when encountering the difficult airway.
• Shock
• After this talk, the participants should be able to define shock and differentiate between the different types of shock
• Opioid withdrawal and treatment
• Alcohol withdrawal and treatment
• Controversies in acute coronary syndrome
• Treatment of COPD and asthma
• Treatment of pneumonia
• Controversies in cerebrovascular emergencies
• How to give a deposition

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.