UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine: Expert Training for High-Stakes Situations

Stay ahead in the high-pressure world of emergency medicine with the UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine course. Designed specifically for practitioners who encounter high-risk conditions daily, this comprehensive program addresses the most anxiety-provoking topics in urgent care, high-risk, and ED settings.

Through 33 online video CME lectures, you’ll gain competence in diagnosis, treatment, procedures, and patient counseling for a range of emergency scenarios, including:

• traumatic emergencies
• cardiologic emergencies
• neurologic emergencies
• toxicologic emergencies
• pediatric emergencies
• airway emergencies

Learning Objectives

Improve your skills and confidence in:

• Diagnosis and treatment of high-risk conditions
• Performance of procedures and patient counseling
• Neurologic, oncologic, traumatic, cardiovascular, infectious, pediatric, respiratory, and toxicologic emergencies

Intended Audience

This course is designed for:

• Practicing emergency physicians
• Internists
• Family practitioners
• Urgent care and ED providers

Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, this course is led by renowned experts in emergency medical and trauma care.

Topics and Speakers

Explore the latest insights and best practices in high-risk emergency medicine with our expert speakers:

• Pearls and Pitfalls in the ED Management of CHF – Amal Mattu, MD
• Pressors: Pearls and Pitfalls – Zlatan Coralic, MD
• Acidosis: Pearls and Pitfalls – Craig Smollin, MD
• Wide Complex Tachycardia Cases – Amal Mattu, MD
• Challenging Cases in Dizziness – Nida Degesys, MD
• Aortic Disasters – Brian Lin, MD
• The Precipitous Delivery – Christopher Colwell, MD
• Advanced Wound Repair: Tips and Tricks – Brian Lin, MD
• Anticoagulation: Pearls and Pitfalls – Zlatan Coralic, MD
• Antidos and Antidonts – Craig Smollin, MD
• Cardiology Literature 2023 Update – Amal Mattu, MD
• Geriatric Falls: Pearls and Pitfalls – Nida Degesys, MD
• Recognizing and Managing Patient and Provider Bias and Racism in the ED – Rosny Daniel, MD
• ACLS Update – Jeffrey Tabas, MD
• The Failed Airway – Kayla Enriquez, MD
• De-escalation in the Age of Workplace Violence – James Hardy, MD
• Orthopedic Critical Care without an Orthopedist – Derek Ward, MD
• Challenging Cases in Patients with Blunt Trauma – Christopher Colwell, MD
• Challenging Trauma Airway Cases – Kayla Enriquez, MD
• Pitfalls in Use of EFAST – Starr Knight, MD
• Challenging Cases in Patients with Penetrating Trauma – Joseph Cuschieri, MD
• Trauma Q&A – Drs. Colwell, Cuschieri, Knight, and Enriquez
• Debrief After Challenging ED Events: Taking Care of Our Team – Eric Issacs, Rachel Perry Limon, RN
• ED Management of Atrial Fibrillation – Jeffrey Tabas, MD
• Diabetic Medications and Devices: Challenging Cases – Rosny Daniel, MD
• Hypertensive Emergency, Urgency or Just High Blood Pressure – Mimi Lu, MD
• Pearls and Pitfalls in Emergency Imaging – Christopher Colwell, MD
• Infants with BRUE: Is Trouble BRUEing or Is It All Just a Big BRUE-Ha-Ha – Dina Wallin, MD
• Dangerous and Bad Practices in Kids – Mimi Lu, MD
• A Simplified Approach to Fever in Infants – Dina Wallin, MD
• Pediatric Orthopedic Can’t Miss Injuries – Margaret Lin-Martore, MD
• Approach to the Critically Ill Infant – Carol Chen, MD
• Pediatric Minor Head and Neck Trauma Cases – Margaret Lin-Martore, MD

Date of Original Release: September 9, 2023