REGISTRATION

6.5 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for CME will be offered
AGENDA
REGISTRATION
(Register online, by mail, or by fax)
7:30 am Registration and Breakfast
8:00 am Welcome and Introductions
Jason Knight, MD and Daryoush Bassiri, MD
8:10 am Toxicology and Current Drugs of Abuse
Name
8:40 am
Affiliation
9:10 am
9:50 am
10:20 am
10:40 am
11:10 am
11:40 am
12:10 pm Lunch, Exhibits and RP-Xpress
Telemedicine Demonstration
1:10 pm Meningitis (Severe and Fulminant)
Antonio Arrieta, MD
1:40 pm Management of Seizures in the ED
Seth Brindis, MD
Cardiac Disease in the Neonate-Presentation and Mary Zupanc, MD
2:30 pm Breakout Session #1 (choose one)
Management
Session A: Pneumonia & Empyema
Joanne Starr, MD
Negar Ashouri, MD
Procedures and Sedation in the ED
Maryam Gholizadeh, MD
Theodore Heyming, MD
Session B: Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies in the ED
Management of the Febrile Infant in the ED
Gira Morchi, MD
Negar Ashouri, MD
3:15 pm Break
Refreshment Break and Exhibits
3:30 pm Breakout Session #2 (choose one)
Child Abuse
Session C: The Impact of Immunizations
Anthony Cherin, MD
Jasjit Singh, MD
Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (When to Obtain Head CT)
Session D: Pediatric Surgical Emergencies
Michael Muhonen, MD
Maryam Gholizadeh, MD
Pediatric DKA in the ED
4:30 pm Evaluations and Adjourn
Mark Daniels, MD
COURSE DIRECTORS
Daryoush Bassiri, MD, Co-Medical Director CHOC Children’s Transport Program, Pediatrics and Neonatology
Jason Knight, MD, Co-Medical Director CHOC Children’s Transport Program, Pediatric Critical Care and Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Irvine
CHOC CHILDREN’S COURSE FACULTY
Antonio Arrieta, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease Negar Ashouri, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Seth Brindis, MD, Emergency Medicine
Anthony Cherin, MD, Critical Care
Mark W. Daniels, MD, Pediatric Endocrinology
Maryam Gholizadeh, MD, Pediatric Surgery
Theodore Heyming, MD, Emergency Medicine Gira Morchi, MD, Pediatric Cardiology
Michael G. Muhonen, MD, Director of Neurosurgery
Jasjit Singh, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Joanne Starr, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Mary Zupanc, MD, Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
Chief of the Division of Child Neurology
Degree
Title
Address
City/State/Zip
Phone/Fax
E-mail (Required for confirmation)
REGISTRATION FEES
To register, visit www.choc.org/events.
Fees include breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and CME fees. All registrants will
receive a confirmation e-mail.
Register early and save $25.00!
By 1/6/12
After 1/6/12
Physician
$99$125
Nurse, PA, Allied Health$75
$100
Residents
$50$75
REFUNDS/CANCELLATIONS
Cancellations received in writing prior to January 9, 2012 are subject to a
$30.00 cancellation fee. Cancellations on or after January 9, 2012 and noshows cannot be refunded. Substitutions are allowed.
CONFERENCE LOCATION AND PARKING
The course will be held in the Harold Wade Education Center at CHOC
Children’s (CHOC Clinic Building, 2nd Floor), 455 S. Main Street, Orange,
CA 92868. Parking is available in the CHOC Employee lot at no charge.
Additional parking information will be sent to attendees upon registration.
QUESTIONS
Please call 714.516.4363 or e-mail sschwamb@choc.org.
OVERVIEW
This course will focus on common and unusual problems of acutely ill and injured
children. The didactic lectures, interactive group discussions, panel discussions,
question and answer sessions, and workshops will prepare emergency physicians,
pediatricians, family physicians, pediatric nurse practitioners and nurses, and
emergency care professionals to assess, diagnose, and treat a wide variety of
pediatric emergencies.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Emergency physicians, pediatricians, family physicians, pediatric and family
practice residents, nurse practitioners, emergency nurses, physician assistants and
emergency care professionals.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of the conference, the participant should be able to:
• Manage the poisoned pediatric patient
• Evaluate and manage a febrile seizure
• Discuss the indications for and goals of sedation in pediatric emergency
procedures
• Appropriately evaluate the febrile infant for serious bacterial infections
• Recognize and appropriately manage meningitis, pneumonia and common surgical
emergencies in the ED
• Identify an appropriate evaluation and treatment strategy for children with head
injury of varying degrees of severity
• Detect the presenting signs and symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis
• Recognize and stabilize infants with congenital heart disease
• Recognize the symptoms of child abuse in the emergency setting
Innovations in Pediatric
Emergency Care
Conference
ACCREDITATION
CHOC Children’s is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical
Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CREDIT DESIGNATION
CHOC Children’s designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA
PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the
extent of their participation in the activity.
This credit can apply to the CMA Certification of Continuing Medical Education.
The California Board of Registered Nursing accepts courses approved by AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit™ for nursing continuing education.
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES
This live activity is supported, in part, through educational grants from In-Touch
Health, Santa Barbara, CA and Lynch Ambulance Service, Anaheim, CA.
Friday, January 27, 2012
CHOC Children’s
2nd Floor, CHOC Clinics
Harold Wade Education Center
455 S. Main St
Orange, CA 92868