Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2024

Join us for a dynamic one-week live-stream virtual postgraduate course hosted by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine. Designed for emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs, this live-streaming course offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. Over the course of five days, you’ll delve into a comprehensive range of topics, including:

5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients: Why It’s Good for You And Good for Them
Acute Compartment Syndromes
Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death
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
Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal
Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
Emergency Medicine Burnout
Emergency Preparedness
Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
Eye Emergencies
Fever POCUS Algorithm
Geriatric Falls
Hand Emergencies
Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock
Mild Head Trauma
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
Neonatal Resuscitation
Pediatric Trauma & Concussion
Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (EFAST, Cardiac, Lung, Procedures)
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Priapism Management
Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine
Sepsis Updates
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine
Updates in Ischemic Stroke
Virtual Observation: Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED

This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by 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. All lectures will be recorded and available for asynchronous viewing in case of time-zone/schedule conflicts.
Who Should Attend

Emergency Medicine Physicians
Primary Care Physicians
Other Specialty Physicians
Physician Assistants
Nurse Practitioners
Nurses
Others

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Identify underlying tachy-dysrhythmia.
Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.
Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.
Utilize latest evidence-based algorithms and strategies in management of PE and DVT.

+ Topics:
Friday 1 Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient.mp4
Friday 2 Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases.mp4
Friday 3 Fever POCUS Algorithm.mp4
Friday 4 Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection.mp4
Friday 5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients Why It_s Good for You And Good for Them.mp4
Friday 6 Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock.mp4
Friday 7 Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism.mp4
Friday 8 Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine.mp4
Monday 1 Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs The Basics.mp4
Monday 2 The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine.mp4
Monday 3 Geriatric Falls.mp4
Monday 4 Eye Emergencies.mp4
Monday 5 Emergency Medicine Burnout.mp4
Monday 6 Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death.mp4
Monday 7 Acute Compartment Syndromes.mp4
Monday 8 Hand Emergencies.mp4
Thursday 1- Burns.mp4
Thursday 2- Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal.mp4
Thursday 3- ARDS.mp4
Thursday 4- Critical Care Double Feature Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal.mp4
Thursday 5- Mild Head Trauma.mp4
Thursday 6- Updates in Ischemic Stroke.mp4
Thursday 7- Cardiac Arrest.mp4
Thursday 8- Sexually Transmitted Infections.mp4
Tuesday 1 Postpartum Hemorrhage.mp4
Tuesday 2 Code ICH The first hours of intracerebral hemorrhage.mp4
Tuesday 3 Escalation Alert Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe.mp4
Tuesday 4 Emergency Preparedness.mp4
Tuesday 5 Pediatric Trauma & Concussion.mp4
Tuesday 6 Priapism Management.mp4
Tuesday 7 Shock and Awe Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse.mp4
Tuesday 8 Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl.mp4
Wednesday 1 POCUS – Procedures – peripheral IV & Lumbar Puncture.mp4
Wednesday 2 POCUS – eFAST.mp4
Wednesday 3 POCUS – Cardiac & Lung.mp4
Wednesday 4 POCUS – Pediatric Cases.mp4
Wednesday 5 Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience.mp4
Wednesday 6 Virtual Observation Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED.mp4
Wednesday 7 Neonatal Resuscitation.mp4
Wednesday 8 Sepsis Updates.mp4