Family Practice: Community-acquired MRSA: Portrait of a Killer (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 57)

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 Family Practice is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information which builds on the AAFP Core Educational Guidelines, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Conditions of the Eye
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Conditions of the Nervous System
Conditions of the Skin
Care of Adolescents & Older Adults
HIV Infection/AIDS
Human Behavior and Mental Health
Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Occupational Medicine
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Rheumatology
Risk Management & Medical Liability
Sports and Recreational Medicine
Urgent and Emergent Care

The goal of this program is to improve outcomes in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Detail the factors that increase clinical suspicion for MRSA.

2: Compare and contrast methicillin-sensitive S aureus, hospital-acquired MRSA, and community-acquired MRSA, with regard to clinical picture, management approach, and outcomes.

3: Discuss the clinical relevance of antimicrobial resistance and the implications of inadequate initial therapy for MRSA.

4: Select appropriate antimicrobial therapy for patients with MRSA infections.

5: Prevent and manage recurrent infection with S aureus.