The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine offers this one-week postgraduate course for local, national, and international emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs. This five-day course will cover a vast array of topics, including:
- Acute Compartment Syndromes
- Acute Ischemic Stroke: Tenecteplase, Expanded Treatment Windows, and Other Updates
- Addressing Burnout in Emergency Medicine
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Pearls
- Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
- Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
- ARDS
- BURNS
- Cardiac Arrest
- Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
- Code ICH! The First Hours of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Management
- Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
- Critical Care Toxicology
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
- Echo in Shock
- Emergency Preparedness
- Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
- Eye Emergencies
- Geriatric Agitation in the ED: Differentiating and Managing Dementia and Delirium
- Geriatric Emergency Departments: Is that a thing? History, Concept and Evolving Evidence
- Geriatric Trauma and Falls
- Hand Injuries: How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates
- High Altitude Illness
- Mild Head Trauma
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
- Pediatric Head Trauma/Concussion
- Point-of Care Ultrasound
- Priapism Management
- Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
- Sepsis Updates
- Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
- Spine Trauma
- STIs
- Substance Use Disorder in the ED
- The Crashing Neonate
- Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation
- Vasopressors & Shock Pearls
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify patients that are potentially critically ill.
- Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients.
- Utilize latest evidence-based algorithms and strategies in management of different conditions.