Mayo Clinic Hospital Medicine: Managing Complex Patients 2017 General Session
Hospital Medicine is a growing medical specialty that requires a diverse skill set. Hospital-based health care providers must be able to diagnose and manage a wide variety of clinical conditions, coordinate transitions of care, provide perioperative management to surgical patients and contribute to quality improvement and hospital administration.
This program has been specifically designed to ensure that participants augment their skill set to meet these many challenges in an effort to enhance the delivery of health care and provide better patient outcomes. Using an interactive, case-based format, key highlights from most major areas of hospital medicine will be presented.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Classify a patient presenting with MI according to the most recent guidelines.
- Select the appropriate indications for troponin testing.
- Manage a patient with subsegmental pulmonary embolism.
- Define sepsis according to the most recent clinical guidelines.
- Select the appropriate antibiotics for a hospitalized patient with health-care associated pneumonia.
- List strategies to improve the mobility of elderly patients in the hospital.
- Manage a patient admitted to the hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis.
- Recognize common sources of cognitive bias and heuristics to minimize their impact on patient care.
- Order the appropriate tests for a hospitalized patient with a newly-diagnosed pleural effusion.
- List novel therapies for patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure.
- Manage a hospitalized patient with prosthetic joint infection.
- Select appropriate preoperative tests for a hospitalized patient undergoing non-elective surgery.
Attendance at this Mayo Clinic course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or taught in this course.
Available Credit
- 18.25 AAFP Prescribed
- 18.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 18.25 AOA
Price
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