2024 Emergency Medicine: Updates & Current Practices

Stay updated on the latest advancements in emergency medicine with this comprehensive one-week postgraduate course, tailored for local, national, and international emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs.

Course Overview

This five-day course covers a diverse range of topics, including:

• Acute Compartment Syndromes
• Acute Ischemic Stroke: Tenecteplase, Expanded Treatment Windows, and Other Updates
• Addressing Burnout in Emergency Medicine
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Pearls
• Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
• Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
• ARDS
• BURNS
• Cardiac Arrest
• Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
• Code ICH! The First Hours of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Management
• Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
• Critical Care Toxicology
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
• Emergency Preparedness
• Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
• Eye Emergencies
• Geriatric Agitation in the ED: Differentiating and Managing Dementia and Delirium
• Geriatric Emergency Departments: Is that a thing? History, Concept and Evolving Evidence
• Geriatric Trauma and Falls
• Hand Injuries: How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates
• High Altitude Illness
• Mild Head Trauma
• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
• Pediatric Head Trauma/Concussion
• Point-of Care Ultrasound
• Priapism Management
• Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
• Sepsis Updates
• Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
• Spine Trauma
• STIs
• Substance Use Disorder in the ED
• The Crashing Neonate
• Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation
• Vasopressors & Shock Pearls

2024 Agenda