Pediatrics: Hot Topics in Emergency Medicine (Audio-Digest Foundation Pediatrics Continuing Medical Education

by Audio Digest

Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.Audio-Digest Pediatrics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management Allergy & seasonal concerns Cardiopulmonary disease Dermatologic problems Cancer in children and adolescents Fever Gastrointestinal problems Genetic concerns Hearing impairment Infectious disease Neurologic problems Newborn screening Nutritional concerns Psychosocial issues Respiratory disease Sports injuries Urologic disease Visual impairmentThe goal of this program is to improve the management of common pediatric emergencies. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able Determine whether to perform a lumbar puncture in a child who has had a febrile seizure. 2: Counsel parents of a child who has had a first febrile seizure. 3: Identify children at high risk for adverse events associated with urinary tract infection. 4: Use the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item scale to screen adolescents for major depression. 5: Manage a child with a button battery lodged in the esophagus.

14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 22, 2012