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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, September 30, 2021, 8:00 am – 12:15 pm PT (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
Maximum of 40 Participants
Suture Kit and Model Included



Faculty:

James Marinucci
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 common wounds including simple lacerations, abrasions, avulsions, bites, and puncture 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, basic suturing, and alternate wound closure techniques.

Learning Objectives:

• Properly assess acute traumatic wounds to determine appropriate management, referral, and follow-up
• Choose appropriate wound management materials and equipment
• Determine appropriate suture techniques according to wound and patient characteristics
• Assess and repair simple lacerations using aseptic technique and a variety of closure methods
• Demonstrate a variety of essential percutaneous suture techniques
• Demonstrate proper intradermal suture technique
• Demonstrate alternate methods of acute wound management for wounds that cannot or should not be sutured
• Explain proper antibiotic indications, tetanus prophylaxis, rabies prophylaxis and instruct the patient in appropriate post-procedural care

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 1:30 pm – 5:45 pm PT (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
Maximum of 40 Participants
Suture Kit and Model Included



Faculty:

James Marinucci
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 lacerations 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 lacerations. 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 laceration repair techniques and seek to elevate their skill set to the next level.

Learning Objectives:

• Properly apply general and loose closure techniques
• Demonstrate multilayer cosmetic wound closure techniques
• Apply methods of proper anatomic boarder alignment
• Demonstrate appropriate wound excision and debridement techniques
• Demonstrate management and repair of single and multiple flap lacerations
• Demonstrate management and repair complex parallel lacerations
• Manage a variety of fingertip injuries including nail bed lacerations
• Identify and prevent complications associated with complex nasal lacerations
• Identify and prevent complications associated with complex ear lacerations
• Review dog-ear deformity repair

Friday, October 1, 2021, 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm PT

Course Length: 2 Hours (2 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
Emergency Partner
BlueWater Health
Brunswick, ME

Description:

The bedside ECG continues to be an amazingly useful diagnostic tool after it was introduced to medical practice over a century ago. It is easy to perform, immediately available, safe, cost-effective and, most importantly, influential in driving timely and potentially life-saving actions. Acute Care clinical providers must become comfortable and competent in ECG interpretation, recognizing that doing so requires a system of analytical pattern recognition. During this presentation, ECG clues to important cardiac conditions will be reviewed, emphasizing subtle patterns associated with acute coronary syndromes and sudden, unexpected death. These will include: Brugada Syndrome; Right Ventricular Infarction; Wellens Syndrome; De Winter Syndrome; Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy; Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy; Sgarbossa Criteria in LBBB; Acute Posterior Myocardial Infarction; and Antidromic SVT. The clinical conditions associated with these ECG findings will be briefly reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

• As a result of participating in this activity, learners will be able to recognize ECG patterns that portend sudden and unexpected death, including Brugada Syndrome, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. and Prolonged QT-interval predisposing to Torsades de Pointe
• As a result of participating in this activity, learners will be able to recognize ECG patterns that are associated with acute coronary syndromes including right ventricular infarction associated with acute inferior STEMI; posterior STEMI; Wellen's Syndrome; De Winter Syndrome; and Sgarbossa Criteria for AMI in the presence of LBBB
• As a result of participating in this activity, learners will be able to recognize ECG patterns that are associated with anti-dromic and orthodromic supraventriclar tachycardia

Friday, October 1, 2021, 1:45 pm – 6:00 pm PT (includes 15 minute break)

Course Length: 4 Hours (4 Credits)
Fees: $349 with conference registration or $475 without conference registration
1:10 Instructor-Participant Ratio
Maximum of 40 Participants



Faculty:

James Marinucci
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:

It's not just for wound repair! Adequate anesthesia for multiple emergency applications underlies both care-giver competency and patient satisfaction. To be medically effective, substances used in pain control should be temporary in nature and relatively safe. Practitioners will learn selection of the most appropriate agent for various applications, including dose, route of administration, duration, and depth of anesthesia, as well as pertinent agent-induced reactions and/or disease-related complications. A wide range of clinical applications from wound repair to general pain management will be discussed. In addition, participants will learn to perform regional nerve blocks in the following areas: Maxillofacial, Hand/Wrist, Foot/Ankle.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the underlying concepts in the application and administration of local and regional anesthesia
• Utilize appropriate knowledge, evaluation, and management strategies in the uses of local and regional anesthesia for select complicated, uncommon and/or unusual acute wounds
• Review anesthesia and patient characteristics that increase adverse outcomes associated with local anesthesia
• Mitigate risks through knowledgeable application of anesthetic agents
• Appropriately manage anesthesia agent toxic reactions

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 September 30, 2021 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 1, 2021 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 2.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. This live activity, Optimizing Local and Regional Anesthesia Workshop, with a beginning date of October 1, 2021 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 4.00 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 2-4 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 2-4 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 2-4 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.