2024 Radiology After Five : How To Make Nights And Weekends A Success
This teaching activity structured to provide important and clinically advanced, information for physicians and other medical personnel who provide or use radiology services in emergency and critical care locations. State of the art imaging protocols; advanced techniques and diagnostic pitfalls are emphasized so that studies can be performed and interpreted in an optimal and time efficient manner. The internationally recognized faculty, share pearls and pitfalls of emergency room and critical care imaging while keeping patient welfare in mind. The need for careful and complete communication between the radiologist and the clinicians will be emphasized along with modern compliance and reimbursement practices.
This teaching activity is primarily designed to educate radiologists, intensivists, trauma surgeons, allied health personnel and emergency medicine physicians. It should also be beneficial for those who order imaging studies and wish to better understand current applications of imaging methods and indications.
At the completion of this teaching activity, you should be able to:
- Discuss approaches to imaging of the most frequent and serious emergency and critical care problems that occur in their practice.
- Demonstrate an increased awareness on how best to respond to the wide variety of imaging and interventional situations that occur most often during the evenings and weekends.
- Optimize protocols to assess the trauma patient in a time efficient manner.
- Discuss the pitfalls associated with trauma imaging.
