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A full refund will be given if you cancel your workshop registration up to 14 days prior to the first day of the workshop. Refunds cannot be honored after this date and tuition will be applied as full credit (no expiration date) for any of our future conferences, webcasts or online courses. Cancellations must be submitted in writing, please email us at registration@cmemeeting.org. No refund will be given for no-shows.

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 8:00 am – 12:15 pm (includes 15 minute break)
ALL TIMES ARE IN PACIFIC TIME ZONE

Course Length: 4 Hours (4 Credits)
Fees: $299 with conference registration or $425 without conference registration
1:10 Instructor-Participant Ratio during breakout sessions
Maximum of 30 Participants
Suture Kit and Model included (must register before 10/14 to ensure receipt in time for the workshop).

Suture kits will be mailed to each participant prior to the workshop to the address that is listed in your profile.  You must register PRIOR to 10/14 to guarantee your kit will arrive in time.

Faculty:

James Marinucci PA-C
Former Director of Trauma Technology and Wound Management at The George Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine
CEO, Alleanza Education
Washington DC

Amy Keim, MS, PA-C
Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Acute Traumatic Wound Care Education and Training
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Washington DC

Ryan Strauss, MSHS, MPH, PA-C
Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Associate Clinical Professor of Physician Assistant Studies
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Washington DC

Other Faculty TBD

Description:

Proper evaluation and management of wounds is critical to ensuring positive patient outcomes. This case-based course is designed to increase the participant's scope-of-practice in managing acute traumatic wounds as they present in the outpatient setting. Improve patient care and your value to your practice with essential procedural skills by exploring common, but potentially problematic, cases from presentation to follow-up including: aseptic technique, proper use of skin adhesives and alternate wound closure techniques, basic suturing, how to properly assess and manage common wounds including simple lacerations, abrasions, avulsions, bites and puncture wounds, incision and drainage of abscesses, local and regional anesthesia techniques and appropriate antibiotic therapies.

Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:

• Evaluate common acute traumatic injuries as they present in the outpatient setting.
• Determine appropriate treatment and management of complex abscesses.
• Assess and repair simple lacerations using aseptic technique and a variety of closure methods.
• Explain proper antibiotic indications, tetanus prophylaxis, rabies prophylaxis and instruct the patient in appropriate post-procedural care.
• Properly assess acute traumatic wounds in order to determine proper management, referrals and follow-up.
• Choose appropriate wound management materials and equipment.
• Determine appropriate suture techniques according to wound and patient characteristics.
• Demonstrate a variety of essential percutaneous suture technique.
• Demonstrate proper intradermal suture technique.
• Demonstrate alternate methods of acute wound management for non- suturable wounds including skin adhesives.

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 1:30 pm – 5:45 pm (includes 15 minute break)

Course Length: 4 Hours (4 Credits)
Fees: $299 with conference registration or $425 without conference registration
1:10 Instructor-Participant Ratio during breakout sessions
Maximum of 30 Participants
Suture Kit and Model included (must register before 10/14 to ensure receipt in time for the workshop).

Suture kits will be mailed to each participant prior to the workshop to the address that is listed in your profile.

Faculty:

James Marinucci PA-C
Former Director of Trauma Technology and Wound
Management at The George Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine
CEO, Alleanza Education
Washington DC

Amy Keim, MS, PA-C
Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Acute Traumatic Wound Care Education and Training
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Washington DC

Ryan Strauss, MSHS, MPH, PA-C
Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Associate Clinical Professor of Physician Assistant Studies
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Washington DC

Other Faculty TBD

Description:

Many “complex” traumatic wounds are referred to specialists either unnecessarily or prematurely - or simply repaired improperly. This case-based course is designed to increase the participant’s scope-of-practice in managing complicated acute traumatic wounds. By exploring common, but frequently problematic, cases from injury and management to post-repair follow-up, participants will learn specialized repair techniques that will improve patient outcomes. This advanced wound management course is designed for participants who are already competent in basic wound repair techniques and seek to elevate their skill set to the next level.

Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate multilayer cosmetic wound closure techniques.
• Apply important pearls and ‘tricks-of-the–trade’ to improve wound closure outcomes.
• Properly apply general and loose closure techniques.
• Discuss anesthesia techniques for various types of traumatic wounds.
• Apply methods of proper anatomic boarder alignment.
• Demonstrate appropriate wound excision and debridement techniques.
• Explain concepts and applications of delayed primary repair.
• Demonstrate management and repair of single and multiple flap lacerations.
• Demonstrate management and repair complex parallel lacerations.
• Manage a variety of fingertip injuries including distal tip amputations and nail bed lacerations.
• Identify and prevent complications associated with complex nasal lacerations.
• Properly manage complex nasal lacerations.
• Identify and prevent complications associated with complex ear and cheek lacerations.
• Demonstrate methods of evaluating critical cheek anatomy.
• Properly manage earlobe and helix repair.
• Perform dog-ear deformity repair.

Friday, October 23, 2020, 1:45 pm – 4:45 pm

Course Length: 3 Hours (3 Credits)
Fees: $199 with conference registration or $275 without conference registration
Maximum of 60 Participants

Faculty:

George L. Higgins III, MD, FACEP
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME

Roger D. Seheult, MD
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Beaver Medical Group, Redlands, CA
Associate Clinical Professor
UC Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, CA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Loma Linda, CA

Description:

This ECG workshop is designed to clarify, review, and augment the training and understanding of clinicians in the field of electrocardiogram interpretation. ECG interpretation remains an effective and low-cost diagnostic tool, yet the utility of the ECG is limited by clinician training, experience, and interpretation skill. This course focuses on clarifying key ECG principals and practical interpretation skills relevant for clinical practice - particularly for those in primary care, acute care and emergency settings. This activity will promote improved patient outcomes in a wide range of therapeutic areas encountered by clinicians — from chest pain to syncope, from tachycardia to possible medication toxicity.

Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of ECG pattern recognition: rates, rhythm, axis (QRS vectors), blocks (interval lengths), etc.
• Understand a systematic ECG interpretation process that may be utilized with each ECG encountered.
• Identify ECG abnormalities that are associated with cardiac conditions that should prompt provider action, including a better understanding of acute management interventions they require.

Physicians

AAFP: These live activities, the Essentials of Basic Wound Management Techniques & Acute Soft Tissue Infections Workshop and Advanced Traumatic Wound Management Workshop with a beginning date of October 22, 2020 have been reviewed and are acceptable for up to 4.00 Prescribed credit(s) each by the American Academy of Family Physicians. This live activity, ECG Interpretation Workshop, with a beginning date of October 23, 2020 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 3.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™: Continuing Education Company, Inc. (CEC) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Continuing Education Company designates these live activities for a maximum of 3-4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC: Successful completion of these CME activities, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3-4 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

AOA: CME activities approved for AAFP credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.

CFPC: Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive 3-4 MAINPRO-M1 credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Nurse Practitioners

AANPCB: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board accepts AAFP Prescribed credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

ANCC:According to ANCC Certification, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal.

Physician Assistants

AAPA: The American Academy of Physician Assistants accepts AAFP Prescribed credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for AAPA Category 1 CME credit.