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As an emergency medicine physician, you provide initial care for patients with acute illnesses or injuries. Your medical expertise is wide-ranging, so that you are able to quickly diagnose and begin interventions for a variety of conditions. Just as time cannot be wasted when you are with patients, and we do not feel your valuable time should be wasted while searching for required continuing medical education (CME). Our comprehensive database allows you to quickly and easily search, register and even book travel plans for emergency medicine conferences all in one place. Are you looking for CME regarding wilderness medicine? Emergency airway management? Infectious disease control? Palliative medicine ? Find the emergency medicine CME you need by searching our list of events, hosted by leaders in medicine such as Harvard Medical School . Are you ready to attend your next emergency medical conference? Review our list of upcoming conventions, annual updates, courses and more. And for additional events specific to common sub-specialties, check out our database of Critical Care Medicine ,Sports Medicine and Toxicology conferences .

The incidence of lower urinary tract injuries is 0.33 percent for patients undergoing gynecologic laparoscopy for benign indications, according to a review published online Dec. 4 in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Jacqueline M.K. Wong, M.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues conducted a systematic review of studies to examine the incidence, location, etiology, timing, management, and long-term sequelae of urinary tract injury in gynecologic laparoscopy for benign indication. Ninety studies met the inclusion criteria, representing 140,444 surgeries. The researchers identified 458 lower urinary tract injuries with an incidence of 0.33 percent. Bladder injury occurred three times more often than ureteral injury (0.24 versus 0.08 percent). The highest rates of injury were seen for laparoscopic hysterectomy not otherwise specified and laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (1.8 and 1.0 percent, respectively). Most ureteral and bladder injuries resulted from electrosurgery (33.3 percent) and lysis of adhesions (23.3 percent), respectively. Ureteral injuries were most often recognized postoperatively (60 percent) and repaired by open ureteral anastomosis (47.4 percent), while most bladder injuries were recognized intraoperatively (85 percent) and repaired by laparoscopic suturing (34.9 percent).

Too many carbs, not fats, may be the culprit in raising risk of premature death, according to a study published online Aug. 29 in the The Lancet to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2017, held from Aug. 26 to 30 in Barcelona, Spain. Mahshid Dehghan, Ph.D., an investigator with the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and colleagues tracked the diet and health of 135,335 people, aged 35 to 70, from 18 countries around the world, to gain a global perspective on the health effects of diet. Participants provided detailed information on their social and economic status, lifestyle, medical history, and current health. They also completed a questionnaire on their regular diet, which researchers used to calculate their average daily calories from fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. The research team then tracked the participants' health for about seven years on average, with follow-up visits at least every three years. The investigators found that high-carbohydrate diets are common, with more than half of the people deriving 70 percent of their daily calories from carbs. People with a high fat intake -- about 35 percent of their daily diet -- had a 23 percent lower risk of early death and 18 percent lower risk of stroke compared to people who ate less fat. The researchers also noted that a very low intake of saturated fats (below 3 percent of daily diet) was associated with a higher risk of death in the study, compared to diets containing up to 13 percent daily. At the same time, high-carb diets -- containing an average 77 percent carbohydrates -- were associated with a 28 percent increased risk of death versus low-carb diets. "The study showed that contrary to popular belief, increased consumption of dietary fats is associated with a lower risk of death," Dehghan told HealthDay. "We found no evidence that below 10 percent of energy by saturated fat is beneficial, and going below 7 percent may even be har

It was not a big problem in order to improve and support my health during the winter. Due to the problems with health, I am trying to maintain my condition.

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Oh please don't let Steve Cooley win. this guy is the kiss of death to the medical marijuana world.

As I know, cannabis is a very good thing for your health so if you have any diseases, I strongly recommend you to google more info about it and you will see that I'm telling the truth right now.

Many people feel stress all the time because of this coronavirus as the majority of them can't go out. I know that it's not so easy to stay at your home all the time so I'm thinking about starting smoking this one because I have heard that it can help me with the anxiety and stress

KT3: Clinical concept and advanced whole body application is organized by Texas Children's Hospital and will be held on Jan 26, 2018 at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 8 CCUs or 8 contact hours. Course Description : The KT3 course combines the Kinesio Taping Method foundational concepts of KT1&KT2 with advanced clinical concepts. The course provides lab time for attendees to practice their skills on the new concepts through a variety of clinical applications. The KT3 course is designed to allow the Certified Kinesio Taping Instructor (CKTI) to cater specific clinical applications to address specific professions. Upon completion of this course and prerequisite KT1&KT2 seminar, attendees will be eligible to request and take the exam to become a Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner (CKTP). Note: Students can request to take the exam but will not be eligible to receive a CKTP certificate until they graduate. Course Objectives are : * Review the basic concepts of the Kinesio Taping Method * Explain and apply advanced concepts of the Kinesio Taping Method * Review epidermis, dermis, and fascial anatomy as it is related to Kinesio Taping * Utilize and demonstrate application skills in guided laboratory sessions * Apply the Kinesio Taping Method to stimulate epidermis, dermis, and fascial response * Apply advanced clinical taping techniques for treatment of the spine, neurological conditions, and upper/lower extremity dysfunction

Most physicians on Twitter with a financial conflict of interest (FCOI) and frequent tweets mention specific drugs for which they have a conflict, according to a study published in the September issue of The Lancet Haematology. Victoria Kaestner, from the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and colleagues examined whether conflicted physicians tweet about specific products for which they have a FCOI. A total of 156 physicians who tweeted a median of 584 times were included, with a 2014 median general payment totaling $13,600.

More than 78 percent of health care personnel (HCP) and 53.6 percent of pregnant women received influenza vaccination during the 2016-2017 influenza season, according to two studies published in the Sept. 29 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Carla L. Black, Ph.D., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and colleagues surveyed 2,438 HCP to estimate influenza vaccination coverage. The researchers found that during the 2016-2017 season, 78.6 percent of survey respondents reported receiving vaccination, similar to reported coverage in the previous three seasons. Coverage was highest for those working in hospitals compared with those working in ambulatory or long-term-care settings (92.3 versus 76.1 and 68 percent) and for those who were required by their employer to be vaccinated (96.7 percent), as in previous seasons. Helen Ding, M.D., from the CDC, and colleagues surveyed 1,893 women pregnant at any time during October 2016 to January 2017. The researchers found that 53.6 percent of respondents reported having received influenza vaccination before or during pregnancy (16.2 and 37.4 percent, respectively); this was similar to coverage during the previous four influenza seasons. Overall, 67.3, 11.9, and 20.7 percent of women reported receiving a provider offer for influenza vaccination, receiving a recommendation but no offer, and receiving no recommendation, respectively, similar to the previous influenza season; influenza vaccination coverage was 70.5, 43.7, and 14.8 percent, respectively, among these women.

A new screening tool can adequately detect risk of diabetic retinopathy in adults with diabetes in low-income communities in Mexico, according to a study published in the October issue of Preventing Chronic Disease. Kenny Mendoza-Herrera, from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, and colleagues analyzed biochemical, clinical, anthropometric, and sociodemographic information from 1,000 adults with diabetes in low-income communities in Mexico in order to develop a screening tool based on a predictive model for early detection of diabetic retinopathy. Time since diabetes diagnosis, high blood glucose levels, systolic hypertension, and physical inactivity were risk factors included in the screening tool. The researchers found that the model had a mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC ROC) of 0.78 in the validation data set. Using the optimized cut point that best represented the study population, the model had a sensitivity of 82.9 percent and a specificity of 61.9 percent. "We developed a low-cost and easy-to-apply screening tool to detect people at high risk of diabetic retinopathy in Mexico," the authors write. "Although classification performance of our tool was acceptable (AUC ROC > 0.75), error rates (precision) depend on false-negative and false-positive rates. Therefore, confirmatory assessment of all cases in mandatory."

Internal medicine patients are frequently prescribed potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), but screening tools can detect clinically relevant PIMs, according to a study published online Oct. 8 in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. Anne-Laure Blanc, Pharm.D., Ph.D., from Geneva University Hospitals in Switzerland, and colleagues compared two PIM-screening tools -- STOPP/START and PIM-Check -- in a general internal medicine ward. They also analyzed a random sample of 50 patients hospitalized in 2013, whose readmission within 30 days of discharge had been potentially preventable, and 50 sex-and age-matched patients who were not readmitted. The researchers found that across the whole ward population, PIM-Check and STOPP/START detected 1,348 and 537 PIMs, respectively, which was the equivalent of 13.5 and 5.4 PIMs per patient. PIM-Check had a substantially shorter screening time versus STOPP/START (four versus 10 minutes). Of the PIMs detected using PIM-Check and STOPP/START, the clinical pharmacist found 45 percent and 42 percent, respectively, to be clinically relevant to individual patients' cases. There were no significant differences in the rates of detected and clinically relevant PIMs between readmitted and nonreadmitted patients.

I was in a major sledding accident as a child which has caused me to have over 10 reconstructive surgeries on my ankle and legs. I am still in constant pain 20 years later and still can't stand for a long time. I, however, don't like to be on opioids for the pain since I will be out of commission from work and school which I don't want to do, So can medical cannabis help?