Emergency Medicine: Updates & Current Practices

2024 Course Overview

Information for the 2025 course is not yet available.

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

This interactive course will include didactic presentations, Q&A, review of cases, problem solving and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting.

Who Should Attend

• Emergency Physicians
• Family Medicine Physicians
• Other Specialty Physicians
• Primary Care Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physician Assistants

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, 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.