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Keep up with the continuing changes in coding and billing with this half-day educational course. Topics include evaluation and management coding and documentation, critical care coding, procedures and modifiers, how documentation plays a key role in supporting medical necessity for critical care services, and coding case studies. Time is also allocated for questions and answers. Attendees receive the accompanying book.

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Held in partnership with the American College of Clinical Pharmacy

This two-day course is ideal for pharmacy professionals who are preparing for the Critical Care Pharmacy Specialty Certification Examination administered by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties in the spring and fall of 2018. Developed and presented by nationally and internationally recognized faculty, the course will provide a comprehensive review of the knowledge domains covered in the critical care specialty. This course will provide 16 hours of live credit and access to an additional four hours of online course materials.

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This half-day course will include didactic discussion and hands-on learning for emergent airway management, pharmacology, rescue techniques, and airway management techniques and tools. Attendees will also learn from expert faculty in skill stations on laryngoscopy, fiberoptic intubation, surgical airway, and rescue strategies.

Physicians, nurses and pharmacists are eligible to receive 0.5 hours of continuing education credit. This opportunity is available through October 2017.

Supported by an educational grant from Amgen

Learning Objectives

• Review the epidemiology, pathophysiology and diagnosis of chronic heart failure (CHF)
• Assess how strategies to decrease hospital readmission rates and overall costs impact patient outcomes, through better diagnosis and disease management
• Discuss how strategies to decrease hospital readmission rates and overall costs, through better diagnosis and disease management, impact patient outcomes
• Outline appropriate strategies to optimize pharmacologic treatment of CHF

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Gain the realistic training needed to perform and interpret ultrasound imaging during this two-day comprehensive course. Participants benefit from skill stations that allow the immediate integration of learned skills, using live models. Hands-on learning with a low faculty-to-attendee ratio includes topics such as: Cardiac Output, Left/Right Ventricular Function, Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography Examination, Vascular Ultrasound, and Ask the Expert. This course will take place at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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Learn how to perform and interpret pediatric ultrasound imaging during this comprehensive two-day course. Expert faculty will review the latest pediatric and neonatal strategies in ultrasound image interpretation and diagnostic challenges. Extensive faculty coverage ensures a significant hands-on experience for each participant. Topics covered in the skill stations include Vascular and Guided Procedures, Volume Status, Ventricular Function, and Ask the Expert. This course will take place at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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Enhance and update your critical care knowledge by attending this two-day multidisciplinary course, which will highlight a variety of topics applicable to the intensive care unit setting. The interactive format will include presentations on select topics, including Mechanical Circulatory Support, Palliative Care, Difficult Ethical Cases, Reversing Oral Anticoagulants, and Antipsychotics in the ICU. Panel discussions provide the opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the experts. Attendees receive an accompanying eBook written by the faculty.

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Attain expert knowledge and bring home new information and approaches for your pediatric critical care practice. This two-day interactive course with panel discussions and pro/con talks will focus on clinical challenges immediately pertinent to the critical care practitioner and will provide insight into new and controversial topics. This year, topics will include updates and cutting-edge approaches in the following four areas: Current Challenges in the Pediatric ICU, Current Landscape of Respiratory Failure in the Pediatric ICU, Practical Issues for Contemporary Pediatric ICU Providers, and Controversies in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Management. Attendees receive an accompanying eBook written by the faculty.