Advances in the Management of Infectious Diseases: Winter Update

Start Date Thursday, March 5, 2009
End Date Saturday, March 7, 2009
Description Thursday Morning, March 5: •Infectious Disease Emergencies •Infections in Patients with Cancer •Diagnosis & Management of Antibiotic Allergies •Clostridium Difficile: Management of Difficult Cases •Pandemic Influenza: What is the Risk? •Panel Discussion: Presentation of Problem Cases and Questions from Audience Friday Morning, March 6: •Community-Associated MRSA: A New Paradigm for Empiric Antibiotic Treatment of Soft Tissue Infections •Meningitis: Update in Diagnosis, Management, and the Impact of Vaccination •Histoplasmosis •Immunodeficiencies I •Challenging Cases in Herpes Simplex Virus Infection •Panel Discussion: Presentation of Problem Cases and Questions from Audience Saturday Morning, March 7: •Update on Hospital-Acquired Infections •Infectious Disease Risk Associated with New Biological Therapies •Immunodeficiences II •Infectious Diarrhea: Case Studies •Controversies in Antibiotic Use
Phone 1 734-763-1400
Fax 1 734-615-6129
Website http://cme.med.umich.edu/events/course.asp?no=U022790
Format Conferences, Lecture, Seminar
Location South Seas Island Resort
5400 Plantation Road
Captiva Island, Florida
33924
Credit Hours 12.25
Credit Category 1
Price $575.00
Specialties Family Practice/Medicine, Internal Medicine, Physician's Assistant, Nurse Practitioner
Objectives The 30th Advances in the Management of Infectious Diseases course will assist internists, family physicians, hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other health care providers in updating their knowledge of common infections encountered in both the hospital and clinic setting. Special focus will be on the following topics: Emerging infectious agents •Hyper-toxin producing Clostridium difficle •Community-associated MRSA – Agents causing infectious diarrhea •Pandemic influenza Special patient populations •Patients with immunodeficiencies •Patients with cancer and neutropenia •Patients with sepsis New treatment and diagnostic information relevant to: •Herpes simplex virus infection •Bacterial and aseptic meningitis •Histoplasmosis •Antibiotic allergies