
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™21 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
- The Evolution of Cervical Cancer Screening
- Non-hormonal treatment of menopausal symptoms
- The Adnexal Mass: Benign or Malignant
- PCOS Lookalikes
- PCOS
- Evaluation of the Incontinent Female Patient
- Non-Surgical Treatment of the patient with Genital Prolapse
- Vulvar Pruritis and Vulvar Pain Disorders
- Addressing Female Sexual Concerns
- Tools Used for Pulmonary Evaluation
- Review American Thoracic Society guidelines for pulmonary function testing and interpretation of: Spirometry, Flow volume loops, Lung volumes, and Bronchoprovocation testing
- Review American Thoracic Society recommendations for cardiopulmonary stress testing and interpretation
- Review indications for oxygen use
- Qualification
- Oxygen use during air travel
- COPD
- Review current GOLD 2022 Guidelines for Staging COPD
- Review GOLD 2022 Guidelines for COPD management
- Review the ACCP and Canadian Thoracic Society published guidelines for prevention of acute exacerbations of COPD
- Review the data that shaped these guidelines as related to:
- Medication Recommendations
- Discuss data on medications use and all cause mortality
- Non-medications Recommendations.
- Vaccinations
- Smoking cessation
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Review data on surgical and non-surgical lung volume reduction in patients with COPD
- Review data on NIV for stable and acute COPD management
- Discuss the role of palliative care in COPD management
- Asthma
- Review the prevalence and economic impact of asthma
- Review the pathophysiology of asthma
- Discuss strategies for management of asthma patients with acute respiratory failure
- Discuss updated expert consensus recommendations for accessing asthma control
- Discuss updated expert consensus recommendations for long term asthma management
- Discuss data on recently FDA approved medications and bronchoscopic interventions used to treat severe persistent asthma
- Briefly look at medications under investigation for asthma treatment
- Pulmonary Nodules and Lung Cancer Screening: Understanding and Applying the Society Recommendations
- Describe characteristics of pulmonary nodules that influence clinical suspicion for benign versus malignant
- Discuss the recommended guidelines for following sold, ground glass, and part solid pulmonary nodules
- Describe Lung-RADS, the structured reporting system for interpretation of lung cancer screening CT examinations
- Understand key elements required for lung cancer screening programs
- Review lung cancer staging, pulmonary evaluation for surgery, and briefly discuss treatments for advance disease
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Review updated definition of ARDS
- Discuss risk factors for developing ARDS and differential diagnosis
- Review data on the use of non-invasive ventilation and high flow nasal cannula for management patients with ARDS Discuss current recommendations regarding mechanical ventilation and management of patients with ARDS
- data on alternative treatments in ARDS including: prone positioning, ECMO, paralytics, and vasodilators
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Discuss the Risk Stratification for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
- Identify Clinical Tools, Radiological Imaging, and Laboratory Markers Used in Risk Stratification of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
- Discuss Current ACCP Recommendations for Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
- Review Data on Treatment Outcomes of Patients with High and Intermediate Risk Acute Pulmonary Embolism Treated with Thrombolyis, Catheter Directed Thrombolyis, and Standard Anticoagulation
- Review Data on Long Term Follow-up from Patients with High and Intermediate Risk PE Treated with Thrombolysis versus Standard Anticoagulation
- Review Current ACCP Recommendation for Duration of Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
- Acid/Base Disorders
- Present a structured approach to the identification of acid-base disorders
- Interpret acid bases disorders which will allow recognition and rapid diagnosis of the causes of the acid base disorder
- Recognize acute and chronic respiratory failure based on ABG findings
- Review causes on anion gap, osmolar gap, and non-anion gap acidosis
- Review causes of metabolic alkalosis
- Apply knowledge in case-based reviews of complex acid/base disorders
- Sleep Apnea Treatment Options: PAP, PACERS, and Beyond
- Review the difference between obstructive and central sleep apnea
- Review the various pressure modalities available and application of these different pressure modalities for treatment of sleep disorders
- Understand the CMS guidelines for qualifications for various pressure modalities
- Review data regarding alternative to PAP treatment of sleep disorder including: weight loss, positional sleep therapy, Dental devices, surgical interventions, upper-airway stimulator devices, transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation for treatment of central sleep apnea





























