Bad Outcomes Occur - Malpractice Need Not
Designed and taught by emergency physicians and medical malpractice attorneys,
High Risk Emergency Medicine is a comprehensive review of the medical-legal
issues inherent to the practice of Emergency Medicine.
High Risk Emergency Medicine is the only risk management course to use actual
malpractice and EMTALA cases to illustrate the most important and common
Emergency Department pitfalls. In this 2-day course, the most costly and/or
frequent errors causing lawsuits or government investigations in Emergency
Medicine are reviewed.
New and Updated Lectures for 2012!
These high risk entities and important topic include:
- Sepsis: Loss of Limb? Loss of Life? Loss of Your Policy Limits
- Technology: Man-Made Disasters
- Wide Complex Tachycardias: Myths and Pitfalls
- Pediatric Airways: Little People Big Disasters
- Medicolegal Case Studies
- Advanced Practice Providers: Rick Reducing Strategies for PAs and NPs
- Thoracic Aoritc Dissections
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Neuro Nightmares
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage/Stroke
- Cases That Defy Logic: Unpredictability of The Medical Legal System
- Acute MI: A Big Piece of Medical-Legal Pie
- Appendicitis & Torsion
- Non-Medical Errors: Ways to Lose Your License
- EMTALA Update
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Documentation Pearls: Creating the Bullet Proof Chart
- Surviving a Lawsuit
- Live Mock Deposition
- Geriatrics: Advancing Age – Advances Risk
- Pediatrics: Avoiding Bad Outcomes
- Extremity Fractures/Wound Care
Using actual case analysis and a review of the medical literature, this course
identifies the critical components of the history, physical exam and data
collection process that are critical to assuring a well supported evaluation,
treatment and disposition. Important principles in communication,
documentation, medical-legal strategies and EMTALA compliance are discussed to
help participants develop an effective Emergency Department Risk Management
Program.
This Twenty-Third Annual Edition of this course has been revised to include the
most recent, relevant literature, malpractice and EMTALA cases. Participants
will also receive a comprehensive Risk Management syllabus and annotated
bibliography that features practical management recommendations for reducing
risk while providing high quality patient care.