Emergency Medicine: Critical Care (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Book 28)

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 the critical patient in the emergency department (ED). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Recognize that the classic presentation of pain in abdominal aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection is often not present.
2. Communicate with the ED staff about the importance of avoiding hyperventilation in a patient who is severely hypovolemic or in cardiac arrest.
3. Utilize all forms of electrical therapy on a pregnant patient in cardiac arrest.
4. Implement therapeutic hypothermia in a postmyocardial infarction patient in cardiac arrest before, during, and after cardiac catheterization.
5. Recognize the importance of performing bedside ultrasonography or echocardiography in a crashing or arresting patient.