Emergency Medicine: Infectious Disease Update 2009 (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Book 26)

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 infectious diseases. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Choose appropriate antibiotics for specific infections, including sepsis, septic shock, bacterial meningitis, and pneumonia.
2. Recognize when antibiotics are not necessary or when a short course of antibiotics is appropriate.
3. Discuss the differences between community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and hospital-acquired MRSA and the treatment of CA-MRSA infections of differing severity.
4. Explain the epidemiology of West Nile virus infections and the treatment of Clostridium difficile infections.
5. Describe the problems expected to be encountered in an influenza epiedemic and the challenges in preparing for one.