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Emergency Medicine Deep Dive: Psych, Toxicology, & Infectious Disease Challenges

Enhance your emergency medicine capabilities with this targeted learning program, tailored for healthcare professionals facing complex psychiatric, toxicological, and infectious disease emergencies.

🔍 Emergency Psychiatry & Toxicology Mastery (2 hr 21 min):

Psych

*Evaluate and manage psychiatric cases in emergencies. First, distinguish medical conditions mimicking psychiatric disorders to rule out organic causes.
*Use the mental – status examination as a crucial assessment tool. Plan patient disposition (voluntary, involuntary, admission, or discharge) based on clinical criteria and safety.
*Discuss acute – care psychiatric medications. Know the indications, contraindications, and side – effects of antipsychotics and anxiolytics.
*Manage agitation or violence with chemical and physical restraints, choosing appropriate medications.
*Outline presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of common Axis I disorders like schizophrenia, mood/anxiety disorders, and those related to substances, medical illness.

Toxicology

*Manage toxic ingestions and overdoses in emergencies. Learn indications, contraindications, and uses of common antidotes like naloxone and N – acetylcysteine.
*Explore anion gap metabolic acidosis and toxic ingestions causing it. Compare physical findings of different toxidromes (opioid, sympathomimetic, etc.).
*Review diagnosis and treatment of toxic alcohol ingestions (methanol, etc.). Explain differences in opiate overdoses (heroin, fentanyl, etc.).
*Discuss sympathomimetic toxicity, features, and treatments. Differentiate acute and chronic salicylate toxicity, use Rumack – Matthew nomogram for acetaminophen.
*Manage other common toxic ingestions (alcohol, benzodiazepines, etc.), covering presentations, diagnostics, and treatments.

🔍 Infectious Disease in Acute Care (2 hr 30 min):

*Diagnose and treat infectious diseases and sepsis in the ED. Start with tick – borne infections (Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever) covering presentation, diagnosis, and ED management.
*Include protozoan infections, their presentation, diagnosis, and treatment. Explore sepsis and septic shock pathophysiology, stressing early goal – directed therapy.
*Discuss HIV from exposure to AIDS, overview antiretroviral meds and side – effects. Explain occupational exposure management and when to start HIV prophylaxis.
*Review common opportunistic infections in AIDS patients (cryptococcal meningitis, etc.), focusing on features and treatments.

💡 Learn. Lead. Save Lives.

With a total length of ~5 hours, this course offers 5 AAPA Category 1 CME Credits.

Speakers:

Michael Caplan, MMSc PA-C graduated as a Physician Assistant in 2004. Initially he worked at an Internal Medicine office but quickly started working with his passion in Emergency Medicine. He is the founder and creator of an online Emergency Medicine fellowship program for licensed Physician Assistants since 2018. While being the primary lecturer for the online program he also has been an adjunct lecturer for many local Physician Assistant programs over the past 15 years.

John Bielinski, Jr, MS, PA-C. John is hailed as one of the greatest presenters in the country. With his unique active style and easy-to-follow presentation, attendees have reported learning more in one day from him than an entire year in the classroom! He earned a master’s degree in family and emergency medicine and is a national lecturer on emergency medicine and extraordinary patient care. His experience not only includes years of hospitalist/intensive care coverage, but he has also run a rural emergency department for nine years autonomously, having cared for hundreds of cardiac arrest and critically ill patients. John has lectured for over 10 years teaching PA students at two PA schools in Buffalo, NY.  He has also instructed paramedics and nurses on advanced cardiac life support.

This activity has been reviewed by the American Academy of Physician Associates Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid from 5/22/2025 to 5/22/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. AAPA reference number: CME-2013619.

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