Emergency Medicine: HIV Update (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Book 27)

Purpose: 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 Emergency Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the care of patients presenting to the emergency department in such areas as:

Airway management
Asthma
Bite wounds
Burns
Cardiovascular emergencies
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Envenomations
Infectious diseases
Ingested foreign bodies
Gastrointestinal emergencies
Psychiatric emergencies
Risk management
Pain management
Poisoning & Toxicology
Resuscitation
Sports injuries
Trauma

Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the management of HIV-associated conditions and side effects of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Review the significance of the CD4 count in determining the stage of HIV infection and in monitoring therapy.
2. Describe the metabolic complications associated with the use of HAART.
3. Recognize and manage immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.
4. Discuss how HAART increases the risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
5. Recognize and treat complications associated with specific drugs used in HAART.