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NEEDS STATEMENT: The specialty of Emergency Medicine affects most Primary Care practices daily by having to diagnose and treat acute patient complaints such as chest pain, vertigo, ingestions, trauma, glucose control and other topics taught in this CME activity. Therefore, Primary Care providers need to review and update their knowledge in the specialty of Emergency Medicine. This activity will help to maintain the level of knowledge needed to keep the Practitioner current in first-response health needs as well as prudent, cost- effective, and practical clinical behavior in the overall practice of EM and urgent care.

Day 1 Disorders of Glucose Control, Parts I and II. As the World Turns: Peripheral Vertigo in the ED. Electrolytes at Panic Levels.

Day 2 Supraventricular Tachycardias. Rapid Sequence Intubation: The Basics. Neuromuscular Weakness. Wrist Injuries Don't Miss That Injury!

Day 3 Thyroid Emergencies. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. The Abnormal ECG. Approach to Chest Pain, Pearls and Pitfalls.

Day 4 Congestive Heart Failure: Updates in Diagnosis and Management. Does This Patient Have a PE? Psychiatric Emergencies. The New Toxidromes.

Day 5 Sepsis Syndromes - The Febrile Patient. Headache in the Emergency Department. Abdominal Pain Into the Black Box of the Belly. Facial Trauma.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES: The overall objective is to provide the participant with practical and clinically relevant information. Upon completion of this CME activity, the physician or healthcare provider should be able to describe the current approach to formulating differential diagnoses, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive management of the various disciplines presented.