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 Orthopaedics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management
Upper extremity disorders Fractures Dislocations Total joint arthroplasty Orthopaedic infections Spinal disorders Orthopaedic trauma Tumors of the bone and soft tissues Sports medicine Congenital anomalies Nontraumatic bone and joint disorders Foot disorders Nervous system disorders
The goals of this program are to improve management of pediatric orthopedic conditions and sports injuries, and to review the orthopedic preparticipation physical examination for student athletes. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able
1: Communicate effectively with referring physicians when managing the child who presents with a suspected fracture.
2: Explain some of the pitfalls in the diagnosis of fractures in pediatric patients.
3: Discuss general guidelines for allowing a child to return to sports after an injury, and list some of the conditions that preclude returning to play.
4: Summarize the basics of rehabilitation of pediatric sports injuries.
5: Describe the elements of the orthopedic preparticipation physical examination and the pre-existing conditions the examination may identify.