Emergency Medicine & Acute Care

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38th Annual EM & Acute Care Course (2023) includes 32 lectures:

  1. Concussion Care: What’s the Evidence? (19:58)
  2. Vascular Dissection – Uncommon but a Killer (27:48)
  3. Updates in the Care of Heart Failure (30:49)
  4. GU Challenges in Children and Adults (35:43)
  5. Important Recent EM Literature - Part 1 (1h, 22m)
  6. Pediatric Pearls (29:20)
  7. New Trends in Antibiotic Utilization (29:49)
  8. Cruising the Critical Care Literature (34:07)
  9. Making a Difference in Low Back Pain (25:44)
  10. ACEP Guidelines 2022: Acute Heart Failure Management (34:58)
  11. Emergency Medicine Myth Busting - Part 1 (27:45)
  12. Management of the SOB Child (26:18)
  13. Important Recent EM Literature - Part 2 (1h, 30m)
  14. Getting Even Better at Pain Treatment (28:01)
  15. Sick Kids, New Ideas (24:32)
  16. Emergency Medicine Myth Busting - Part 2 (33:24)
  17. Pearls from Risk Management Monthly - Part 1 (33:16)
  18. ENT Pearls – I/D, Steroids, Antibiotics (27:56)
  19. Low Value Injury Care (29:29)
  20. Pearls from Risk Management Monthly - Part 2 (33:11)
  21. ED Staffing and Operations Forum (1h, 20m)
  22. Airway Updates 2022 (26:10)
  23. Procedures 2023 (28:13)
  24. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Care (24:15)
  25. OMI-NOMI: A New Paradigm for Coronary Ischemia (32:29)
  26. Upping Your Game in Headache Care (28:09)
  27. Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 1 (25:36)
  28. Holding Admitted Patients Worsens Outcomes (31:15)
  29. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Controversies (1h, 21m)
  30. OMI-NOMI: The OMI ECGs You Have to Know (32:26)
  31. Strokes, Mini-Strokes, and TIAs (27:18)
  32. Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 2 (22:36)

37th Annual EM & Acute Care Course (2022) includes 32 lectures:

  1. IV Ketamine for Depression and Suicidality in the ED? (22:21)
  2. Is Thrombolysis Needed Prior to Clot Extraction in Stroke? (31:38)
  3. Syncope – Who Is at Serious Risk? (23:42)
  4. Post Cardiac Arrest Pearls (24:43)
  5. Important Recent EM Literature - Part 1 (1h, 18m)
  6. Critical Care Grab Bag (27:36)
  7. LP for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Who Gets It? (32:19)
  8. Bronchiolitis: Less is More (28:40)
  9. 2021 AHA Chest Pain Guidelines: Game Changer - Part 1 (24:33)
  10. Sexually Transmitted Infections – 2021 Guidelines (19:43)
  11. Pulmonary Embolism – Overtesting & Disposition (29:22)
  12. Emergency Medicine New Products - Part 1 (32:14)
  13. Important Recent EM Literature - Part 2 (1h, 31m)
  14. 2021 AHA Chest Pain Guidelines: Game Changer - Part 2 (23:12)
  15. New Advances in Prehospital Care (29:24)
  16. Reader Beware – Predatory Publishing & Preprints (27:32)
  17. COVID Therapies: What Works, What Doesn’t - Part 1 (29:00)
  18. The 2021 AAP Guidelines for Febrile Infants - Part 1 (23:02)
  19. The 2021 AAP Guidelines for Febrile Infants - Part 2 (21:59)
  20. Posterior Circulation Stroke – A Tough Diagnosis (25:49)
  21. ED Staffing and Operations Forum (1h, 20m)
  22. COVID Therapies: What Works, What Doesn’t - Part 2 (31:48)
  23. Pearls from Risk Management Monthly - Part 1 (29:18)
  24. Pearls from Risk Management Monthly - Part 2 (32:52)
  25. Importance of Shared Decision Making (31:40)
  26. Trauma Pearls from the Recent Medical Literature (35:09)
  27. Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 1 (28:07)
  28. Emergency Medicine New Products - Part 2 (20:14)
  29. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Controversies (40:19)
  30. Tranexamic Acid – Lessons Learned (26:01)
  31. Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 2 (26:39)
  32. What’s New in ED Airway Management? (35:33)

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Sample Lectures

Study on Your Time and at Your Pace

One of the chief benefits of the self-study program is the flexibility it provides participants to study at their own pace. Participants can instantly watch or listen to the lectures with ease at any time that suits them best.

No commercial support was obtained for this program.

Self-Study CME Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Center for Emergency Medical Education and Center for Medical Education.

The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The AOA automatically recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ as AOA Category 2 credit.

Both PA and NP organizations recognize AMA PRA Category 1 credit™ as approved CME.

The Center for Medical Education, Inc., is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 12345

2023 EM & Acute Care Course Series
The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) designates this self-study activity for a maximum of 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

2022 EM & Acute Care Course Series
The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) designates this self-study activity for a maximum of 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience

The target audience for this course is physicians, PAs and NPs who practice in emergency departments and who are seeking an evidence-based, literature-focused update in controversial areas of emergency care.

Learning Objectives

After completing the Emergency Medicine and Acute Care: A Critical Appraisal self-study program, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss key points from the literature regarding leading-edge emergency medicine topics.
  • Discuss literature-based recommendations for practice improvement.
  • Effectively translate the acquired strategies into improved diagnostics and subsequently implement a better treatment plan for their patients.