Adult Acute Care Essentials
Overview
Adult Acute Care Essentials is a one day conference that teaches you to recognize and treat many of the common pathologies that present in the acute care setting. Maintaining an organized approach to chief complaints such as chest pain, abdominal pain, weakness, and fever is crucial to caring for patients in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care. This conference is designed for physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and students who work in an acute care environment.
Registration Dates
Dates Pending for 2020
Location
Sheraton Crescent Hotel
2620 W Dunlap Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85021 | (602) 943-8200
Agenda: Morning Session
Acute Abdominal Pain
Discover the pathologies that cause acute abdominal pain in adults. In addition, improve your ability to create a succinct differential diagnoses based on history and exam. Discuss the best imaging techniques and labs to order based on your differential diagnoses and learn the most appropriate disposition.
Adult Back Pain
Learn the red flags of back pain and improve your ability to find critical pathologies that can lead to devastating outcomes in patients.
Stroke and other Acute Neurologic Pathologies
Stroke is the most concerning neurologic emergency. Learn how to recognize and treat acute stroke. Discover stroke mimics and other acute neurologic pathologies that present in the acute care setting.
Sepsis and Acute Infections
Recognizing sepsis and initiating treatment in a timely manner can save lives. Learn how to identify sepsis, initiate treatment and disposition your patients appropriately.
Chest Pain
Not all chest pain is cardiac related. After this discussion you will have the tools to develop a broad differential diagnosis allowing you to initiate appropriate workups for your patients.
Agenda: Afternoon Session
Headache
There are many causes of headaches. Learn to identify which headaches are associated with toxic pathologies and which headaches can be treated with symptomatic management.
Dyspnea
Gain the knowledge you need to evaluate and treat the dyspneic patient.
Bleeding in Pregnancy
Identify the causes of vaginal bleeding in pregnancy and learn the critical steps in managing these pathologies.
Dizziness
Learn to make sense of this nonspecific and confusing chief complaint. Identify important pathologies that can cause dizziness while learning to identify the patients with less concerning symptoms.
CME Credits
Earn 9 AAPA Category 1 CME credits or 9 AANP contact hours.
Cost
$445 if paid in full on or before May 31, 2019
$495 after May 31, 2019