Emergency Medicine: Infectious Emergencies (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 pediatric infectious diseases and pneumonia in the emergency department (ED). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Manage and prevent skin and soft tissue infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in children in the ED.
2. Perform a thorough diagnostic evaluation of the febrile infant.
3. Utilize scoring systems where appropriate to determine disposition of patients with pneumonia.
4. Recognize the conditions in which obtaining blood culture is appropriate in the ED.
5. Prescribe the appropriate antibiotic therapy to a patient with pneumonia, depending upon the risk factors and associated conditions present.