The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice Audio Series Vol.1

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Reduce the time you spend staying up-to-date on key clinical topics with The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice Audio Series Vol.1

After listening to this audio series, you'll be able to apply evidence-based principles to the treatment of croup in children, ovarian torsion in children, pediatric procedural sedation, and acute appendicitis. And all it takes is less than 2 hours of your time!

In The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice Audio Series, Dr. Andrew Sloas guides you on a review of 4 critical topics: croup in children, ovarian torsion in children, pediatric procedural sedation, and acute appendicitis. In each of the 4 reviews, Dr. Sloas explains the latest medical research to shine a light on problems you face in the ED, while giving you evidence-based treatment recommendations you can use to avoid and overcome them. Each review is under 25 minutes, so they’re perfect for listening to while you’re on the go or have a break between shifts. You'll be up-to-date on these 4 critical topics in less than 2 hours!

Topics included:

• The Evaluation And Treatment Of Croup In Children
• Diagnosing And Managing Ovarian And Adnexal Torsion In Children
• An Evidence-Based Approach To Pediatric Procedural Sedation
• Acute Appendicitis In Childhood

Product Details:

• Evidence-based reviews on 4 critical patient presentations: croup, ovarian torsion, procedural sedation, and acute appendicitis
• 2 convenient formats: You get an MP3 download containing all 4 topics instantly after you order
• Speaker: Dr. Andrew Sloas
• Recording date: December 17, 2012
• Length: 81 minutes (individual topics run between 17 to- 23 minutes)
• CME: 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM
• CME expiration date: January 1, 2016
• Price: $59

Each topic in this collection condenses the information you need to know into easily digestible sessions. You only need to spend 17- to-23 minutes listening to each topic to get up-to-date! The entire collection contains just under an hour-and-a-half of evidence-based audio content and will give you recommendations you can immediately begin applying to your practice. The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice 2012 Audio Series comes with an MP3 download (available as soon as you complete your purchase). As an added bonus, you can also earn up to 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM -- at no extra charge.

Topic #1: An Evidence-Based Approach To The Evaluation And Treatment Of Croup In Children

There is little that is more concerning as an emergency medicine practitioner than the threat of impending airway loss. The pediatric airway prompts a special concern because, for most practitioners, the opportunity to intubate a child is a rarity. When managed correctly, however, croup is a disease process in which the need to intubate a crashing patient can be avoided. 

With the advent of steroids and racemic epinephrine, this disease process is now reversible. This audio session will refresh your acumen for the diagnosis and treatment of croup and introduce you to some new concepts, so you can avoid potential airway disasters.

Length: 19 minutes

Topic #2: An Evidence-Based Approach To Pediatric Procedural Sedation

Having to do an unplanned intubation because of an iatrogenic event is something every emergency medicine practitioner seeks to avoid. Which is what makes pediatric procedural sedation such an important topic. There are few things you do in emergency medicine that threaten the airway more than deeply sedating your patients.

The painful procedures you're called to perform force you to walk the line between deep sedation and general anesthesia in order to achieve adequate analgesia. But where do you draw the line? This audio review will expand your familiarity with multiple sedation medications that span the really new drugs to the more traditional accepted therapies. You'll learn what medication choices are available and which techniques will increase your sedation safety profile.

Length: 23 minutes

Topic #3: An Evidence-Based Review Of Acute Appendicitis In Childhood

Missed appendicitis is one of the most successfully litigated cases in the pediatric population, making this a review you simply can't miss. We'll go over the pitfalls to avoid and address key questions like:

• Should the age-old practice of taking a history, performing a physical, having a surgeon examine the abdomen, and finally taking the patient to the operating suite to have their appendix removed give way to other diagnostic strategies?
• Are newer algorithms and scoring systems that attempt to increase specificity really necessary, and are they sensitive enough?
• Does this disease warrant the risks associated with the radiation from the CT scanner or the time delays from ultrasound?
• More importantly, how accurate are all of these strategies?

Length: 22 minutes

Topic #4: Diagnosing And Managing Ovarian And Adnexal Torsion In Children

Narrowing the differential diagnosis to a short list that includes ovarian torsion may be automatic in cases when the patient presents with colicky pain and appears to be severely toxic, but what about in children who are unable to provide you with a history?  And what about those who present with a more nondescript form of abdominal pain? The weight of the medical literature makes it clear that ultrasound alone is not good enough to be able to rule out this disease process.

This audio review will give you an evidence-based approach to this topic, so you'll know how to combine all tools available to you (history, physical examination, and ancillary testing) to correctly identify this disease.

Length: 17 minutes