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1st Annual Pulmonary & Critical Care Conference

This activity is designed for primary care physicians, intensivists, emergency physicians, hospitalists, and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with pulmonary and critical care disease, desiring an update in these specialty areas.

Learning Objectives

  

1st Annual Pulmonary & Critical Care Conference
Friday, April 17, 2015 7:30AM-5:00PM
The Grandview, 176 Rinaldi Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Objectives

 

Following the completion of this conference, attendees should be able to:

  1. Apply newly acquired knowledge in the management of pulmonary
    and critical care patients

  2. Recognize the role of interventional radiology in neurological emergencies

  3. Relate the key principles in the use of non-invasive mechanical ventilation

  4. Describe initial resuscitation of hemodynamically unstable septic patient

  5. Describe the role of thrombolytic & IVC filters in the
    management of the large pulmonary embolism

  6. Become familiar with advanced bronchoscopy techniques

  7. Evaluate and manage pulmonary arterial hypertension

  8. Develop an approach for the treatment of cough

  9. Describe the methodology for lung cancer screening

  10. Review the basic concepts of sleep medicine

  11. Manage the difficult to treat asthma patient  

 

 

VBMC Nurses must also submit RTA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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