In Acute Care Surgery: Oakstone Clinical Review 2016, learn about emergency general surgery, surgical critical care, and trauma care for acutely unwell surgical patients. General surgeons and related health workers can improve their skills by practicing:
- Review trauma resuscitation methods.
- Discuss how non-invasive and intrusive monitoring helps critically sick patients receive goal-directed care.
- Discuss why trauma victims need rib stability.
Learning Objectives of Acute Care Surgery: Oakstone Clinical Review 2016:
- Upon completion of this activity, individuals should:
- Establish clostridium difficile management guidelines.
- Recognize life-threatening pelvic fracture conditions.
- Determine who might benefit from ECMO.
- Select appendicitis patients for medical therapy. Appendicitis can be simple or complicated.
- Discuss how endovascular repair reduces aortic injury morbidity and death.
- Describe a diverticulitis patient undergoing surgery.
Audience Target:
Oakstone Clinical Review 2016 is for general surgeons and other healthcare professionals.
TOPICS/SPEAKERS of Acute Care Surgery: Oakstone Clinical Review 2016:
- Acute Care Surgery and Transition to Practice Program – Tom Cogbill, MD, FACS
- Antibiotics for Appendicitis – Ready for Prime Time? – Travis Webb, MD, MHPE, FACS
- Management of Intraabdominal Infection – Tom Carver, MD, FACS
- You Got Your Patient Through an Episode of Acute Diverticulitis: Now What? – Marshall Beckman, MD, FACS
- ECMO-Use and Abuse – Marcus Kaiser, MD
- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome – Definition and Management Approaches – Todd Neideen, MD, FACS
- Emergence of PICS in our ICU Survivors – Panna Codner, MD, FACS
- Delirium – Risk Factors and Prevention and Strategies for Management – Kristin Shields, MD
- Complex Pelvic Fracture – How Your Orthopedic Surgeon Can Help You Manage the Complex Pelvic Fracture – Harmeeth Uppal, MD
- Endovascular Management of Blunt Aortic Injury – Michael Malinowski, MD, FACS
- Emergency Airway Management – Where in the Field, in ED, in ICU? – Lexi Goldin, MD
- Critical Care Update: Team Care, C. difficile Disease, New Oral Anticoagulants, Blood Transfusion – John A. Weigelt, MD, DVM, FACS
See Also: New York General Surgery Board Review 2014 (MP4, MP3, PDF)
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