Hazards of the Anesthesia Workstation (2016 RCA - April 2017)
James B. Eisenkraft, M.D.
1.00 Hours
The anesthesia delivery system includes the anesthesia machine, vaporizers, ventilator, and waste gas scavenging system, as well as monitoring and protection devices. The term anesthesia workstation is defined as a system for the administration of anesthesia to patients and consists of the anesthesia gas supply device, anesthesi....
NORA: Complexity, Safety, Efficiency and Leadership (Patient Safety Highlights 2016)
Basem B. Abdelmalak (M.D.), Alan Marco (M.D.), and Donald Matthews (M.D.)
2.00 Hours
Anesthesia providers are being increasingly asked to provide care outside of the traditional operating room setting. This has led to the recognition of a distinct type of anesthesia service known as Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA). NORA (table 1) has been on a steady rise, in distinct contrast to the numbers of patients s....
Distracted Doctoring in the Operating Room: Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence (Patient Safety Highlights 2016)
Kenneth Abbey (M.D., J.D.), Matthew Weinger (M.D., M.S.), and Kirk Lalwani (M.B., B.S., FRCA, M.C.R.
1.00 Hours
This course outlines the potential medicolegal consequences of indulging in non-patient care activities during provision of anesthesia care, along with behaviors and practices to minimize distractions and medicolegal liability related to distractions during provision of anesthesia care.
Endocrine Challenges for the Dental Practitioner
StJohn Crean, Rishi Bhandari
This session will look at the relevance of common endocrine disorders to the delivery of dental care by the dental practitioner.
Management of Orofacial Malignancies
Atheer Ujam
This session describes how to recognise important diagnostic features of malignant and premalignant oral lesions allowing early and appropriate referral to specialist care.
Domestic Violence 3 Hour: Focus on Child Abuse
Mary Kathleen Ebener PhD, RN
3 Hours
This course focuses on child maltreatment, abuse and neglect within the larger context of domestic or family violence. The dynamics of domestic violence are presented using Pence and Paymer’s power and control wheel as a guiding explanatory model (1986). Common forms of child maltreatment, abuse and neglect are described and cat....
Examining Proneness to Malpractice Claims
Keith D’Oria and David M. Studdert, LLB, ScD, MPH
0.5 Hours
Medical malpractice continues to be a significant issue for physicians from all walks throughout the United States, and there are long-standing concerns about those who are claim-prone and complaint-prone. Medical malpractice claims are one useful indicator of patient safety. In the past, researchers have compared physicians who....
Improving Surgical Decision Making
Keith D’Oria & Margaret L. Schwarze, MD, FACS
0.5 Hours
Researchers have developed and tested a tool designed to address the core decisional and informational needs of older surgical patients. The tool may improve patient engagement and reduce postoperative treatment regret and conflict about post-surgical treatments.
Drug & Dietary Supplement Use Among Seniors
Chris Cole and Dima M. Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD
0.5 Hours
Published research indicates that many older adults in the United States use prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications and dietary supplements, but this can increase their risks for polypharmacy and adverse drug events. Many medications that are commonly used by older adults, such as antiplatelets, anticoagulants, stat....
Managing Sepsis in ICU
Mr Hamza Shehade Rn, BSc, MSc, Staff Development Coordinator and Clinical Educator
A quick guide about sepsis and septic shock in a very short and little written words.
How to Prevent and Manage Bleeding after Birth (Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage)
Industry Specialists
This film shows how to prevent and manage excessive bleeding after the delivery of a baby, otherwise known as primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).
Imaging Loin Pain and Renal Colic
Philip Haslam
0.75 Hours
This session examines the renal causes of loin pain and the imaging modalities used.
HIV and Hepatitis Among Native Gay Men and Two Spirit People
Industry Specialist
1 Hours
This course highlights key issues that impact risks for HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and viral hepatitis among Native gay men and Two Spirit people. It also presents recommendations for state and local health departments to effectively collaborate with Tribal communities, Native agencies, and Native gay men and Two....
Elimination and Toileting
Damion Keith Jenkins
2.5 Hours
This Elimination and Toileting course will provide participants with a review of the basic safety considerations and nursing care guidelines that help protect patients, residents and clients from complications related to elimination and toileting. This comprehensive review can be utilized throughout all healthcare settings, as t....
Factors Affecting Health of Women of Color
Industry Specialists
5 Hours
This CEU course examines the health care systems, the major diseases, and the barriers to accessing health care for women of American Indians / Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics and Latinos, Blacks / African Americans, and Asian Americans.
Nursing Care of the Recovering Trauma Patient
Erik J. Usher, RN, BS, CEN, CPEN, EMT-P, CFRN
2 Hours
Trauma care is provided over a continuum of care, in many different environments. Trauma nursing as a discipline is challenging and exciting in the anticipation of the next unknown case, regardless of whether in the acute setting or long-term rehabilitation backdrop. Trauma nurses work closely with other team members to assess a....
High-Risk Juvenile Offenders and Crime Deterrence
Thomas Loughran, Ph.D., et al.; U.S. Department of Justice
1 Hours
There is a link between perceptions of the threat of sanctions and deterrence from crime among serious adolescent offenders. This CEU course discusses the factors that lead youth who have committed serious offenses to persist in or desist from offending.
Gambling Problems - An Introduction for Behavioral Health Providers
Industry Specialist
1 Hours
This course provides a brief introduction to pathological gambling, gambling disorder, and problem gambling. Resources for additional information are also provided. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
Nearing the End of Life: Dare to Care
Nancy E. Joyner, RN, MS, APRN-CNS, ACHPN®
6 Hours
Families ask . . . what would you do if this were your loved one? Learn how to reply without bias … Creative ways to discuss withdrawing or withholding treatment Manage patient pain and symptoms: Medical marijuana, morphine, palliative sedation or fewer medications? Tips to guide code status conversations with patients and famil....
NICE lipid modification guidelines: statins for all?
Professor Mike Kirby
The updated guideline on lipid modification from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which was published in summer 2014, has continued to cause a great deal of controversy, both among health professionals and the general public. Now that the dust has settled just a little, it is time to review the messa....
Implementation of a Clinical Trial Matching System
Tufia Haddad, MD
1 Hours
This session will describe how an academic institution leveraged an IT solution to transform the clinical trial matching process for patients with cancer. Since the development and implementation of the clinical trial matching cognitive computing solution into the breast cancer oncology practice, clinical trial enrollment to sys....
Inflammatory Origins of CRS: Uncovering Opportunities for Disease Prevention and Modification
Claus Bachert (MD, PhD), Robert C. Kern (MD), Anju T. Peters (MD), and Martin Wagenmann
2.5 Hours
The goal of this session is to explore the role of Inflammation in Chronic Rhinosinusitis. As we move away from an infectious etiology as the primary trigger for sinus disease and more toward a complex model if multiple inflammatory pathways, we hope to move this topic toward the practicing clinician. The mucosal/bacterial i....
Lessons from Functional Genomics: New Data from the AADCRC
Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey (MD PhD FAAAAI), Benjamin A. Raby (MD MPD), and Marc E. Rothenberg (MD PhD
2.5 Hours
This symposium session will review the most recent data from large population cohorts that inform our therapeutic approach.
How Translational Research is shifting the Treatment Paradigm from Symptom Management to Cure
Rosa Bacchetta (MD), Nicholas W. Lukacs (PhD), Natalija Novak (MD), Jennifer M. Puck (MD), and Rudol
2.5 Hours
The major goal of the course is to present translational research to be understood by a broader audience.
Novel Endotypes of Asthma: Lessons from the AADCRC
Dr. Eric B. Brandt (PhD FAAAAI), Dr. Tanya M. Laidlaw (MD FAAAAI), and Dr. Prescott Woodruff (MD MPH
1.25 Hours
This session will review clinically important asthma endotypes and the mechanisms that regulate the clinical expression of disease.