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NEEDS STATEMENT: There is a need to maintain and improve the clinical skills of the Primary Care Practitioner in Pulmonary Medicine due to the fact that new treatments for Asthma, CAP, TB, PE/DVT, Sleep Disorders and Critical Care Medicine are rapidly developing and available. This CME activity addresses these needs and satisfies the need to improve the abilities of practitioners to diagnose, treat and properly refer necessary pulmonary conditions. Greater reliance on clinical skills and knowledge and less reliance on unnecessary testing and specialty referral will help improve the continuity of patient care while curtailing the rising costs of medical care today.

Day 1 Nuts and Bolts of Pulmonary Function Testing The Basics. Asthma Update. COPD - Overview of Patient Management Part I & II.

Day 2 Disorders of Sleep Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Others. Pleural Diseases. Approach to the Patient with Chronic Cough. Preoperative Pulmonary Assessment.

Day 3 Approach to Acid-Base Disturbances. Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation. Shock and Hemodynamic Monitoring. Critical Care Cases for Review, Part I.

Day 4 Critical Care Cases for Review, Part II. Community Acquired Pneumonia. Tuberculosis. Lung Cancer.

Day 5 Hemoptysis. Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease. Interstitial Lung Diseases The Basics. Pulmonary Cases for Review.

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.