UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine

CME Insights for Emergency Medical and Trauma Care

UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine is sharply focused on meeting the needs of the practitioner who encounters high-risk conditions in their daily practice. It’s continuing medical education designed to address topic that — due to risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure — produce the greatest anxiety and concern for anyone practicing in an urgent care, high-risk, or ED setting.

Through 33 online video CME lectures, you’re sure to gain competence in diagnosis, treatment, procedures, and patient counseling while you expand your knowledge of traumatic, cardiologic, neurologic, toxicologic, pediatric, and airway emergencies — and much more.

Topics / Speakers

Pearls and Pitfalls in the ED Management of CHF - Amal Mattu, MD

Pressors – Pearls and Pitfalls - Zlatan Coralic, PharmD

Acidosis – Pearls and Pitfalls - Craig Smollin, MD, FACMT

Wide Complex Tachycardia Cases - Amal Mattu, MD

Challenging Cases in Dizziness - Nida F, Degesys, MD

Aortic Disasters - Brian Lin, MD

The Precipitous Delivery - Christopher Colwell, MD

Advanced Wound Repair – Tips and Tricks - Brian Lin, MD

Anticoagulation – Pearls and Pitfalls - Zlatan Coralic, PharmD

Antidos and Antidon’ts - Craig Smollin, MD, FACMT

Cardiology Literature 2023 Update - Amal Mattu, MD

Geriatric Falls – Pearls and Pitfalls - Nida F. Degesys, MD

Recognizing and Managing Patient and Provider Bias and Racism in the ED - Rosny Daniel, MD

ACLS Update - Jeffrey Tabas, MD

The Failed Airway - Kayla Enriquez, MD, MPH

De-escalation in the Age of Workplace Violence - James Hardy, MD

Orthopedic Critical Care without an Orthopedist - Derek Ward, MD

Challenging Cases in Patients with Blunt Trauma - Christopher Colwell, MD

Challenging Trauma Airway Cases - Kayla Enriquez, MD, MPH

Pitfalls in Use of EFAST - Starr Knight, MD

Challenging Cases in Patients with Penetrating Trauma - Joseph Cuschieri, MD

Trauma Q&A - Drs. Colwell, Cuschieri, Knight, and Enriquez

Debrief After Challenging ED Events – Taking Care of Our Team - Eric Issacs, MD and Rachel Perry Limon, MS, RN, CNS

ED Management of Atrial Fibrillation - Jeffrey Tabas, MD

Diabetic Medications and Devices – Challenging Cases - Rosny Daniel, MD

Hypertensive Emergency, Urgency or Just High Blood Pressure - Mimi Lu, MD

Pearls and Pitfalls in Emergency Imaging - Christopher Colwell, MD

Infants with BRUE – Is Trouble BRUEing or Is It All Just a Big BRUE-Ha-Ha - Dina Wallin, MD

Dangerous and Bad Practices in Kids - Mimi Lu, MD

A Simplified Approach to Fever in Infants - Dina Wallin, MD

Pediatric Orthopedic Can’t Miss Injuries - Margaret Lin-Martore, MD

Approach to the Critically Ill Infant - Carol Chen, MD, MPH

Pediatric Minor Head and Neck Trauma Cases - Margaret Lin-Martore, MD

Faculty

Accreditation

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Designation

UCSF designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 17.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Date of Original Release: September 9, 2023
Series Expiration Date: September 8, 2026 (deadline to register for credit)
Estimated Time to Complete Activity: 17.00 hours

Learning Objectives

The objectives of this conference are to improve competence in diagnosis, treatment, performance of procedures, and patient counseling for neurologic, oncologic, traumatic, cardiovascular, infectious, pediatric, respiratory, and toxicologic emergencies.

Intended Audience

UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine is a course designed to address those topics that, due to the risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure, produce the greatest anxiety and concern in the daily practice of emergency medicine. Offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, nationally renowned for emergency medical and trauma care, this conference will meet the needs of the practitioner who encounters a high-risk condition in their daily medical practice. This includes practicing emergency physicians as well as internists, family practitioners, and others who practice in an urgent care, high risk, or emergency department setting.

Quick Facts

Provider: University of California, San Francisco

Course Directors:

Carol Chen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
Jeffrey Tabas, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Outcomes and Innovations
Office of Continuing Medical Education

Credits: Earn a maximum of 17.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™