Critical Care Emergency Medicine Package (CME VIDEOS)

If you work as a “lone wolf” critical access provider, this program will save lives. If you are a PA/NP or primary care physician working at a critical access ED, this program will make or break your performance.

This program is for any advanced practitioner provider who wants to take their emergency medicine to the next level and deeply understand how to care for the critically ill patient.

After completion of this program, participants will be able to evaluate and assess critically ill patients with more confidence by using systems and processes taught during these lectures.

Speakers:

• John Bielinski, PA-C

Objectives

• To organize an approach to critical access EM
• Understand the five causes of chest pain
• Master the HEART score
• Connect tachycardia with patient presentation and review the ACLS algorithms
• Describe guideline directed heart block diagnosis and treatment
• Guide the early identification and treatment of hypotensive patient
• Guide the clinical approach to airway emergencies
• Understand the five cause of shortness of breath
• Master the pulmonary embolism
• Discuss the key components of a difficult to AMBU bag a patient
• Discuss the key components of a difficult to intubate a patient
• Differentiate oxygenation/ventilation emergencies
• Initiate resuscitation in a patient with a toxic ingestion
• Assemble a clinical approach to electrolyte emergencies
• Guide in running a code blue and near code
• Discuss key features of a septic patient
• Discuss key features of an anaphylactic patient
• Align the clinical approach asystole
• Examine lethal arrhythmias and pharmacology/defibrillation options
• Understand end thinking when it comes to emergency care
• Evaluate the two different categories of bad outcomes in emergency medicine
• Understand the difference between system one and system two thinking
• Differentiate the key components in emotional intelligence and how it applies in medicine
• Review pearls of making your chart unattractive to plaintiff attorneys