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The Varying Appearances of Cholangiocarcinoma: Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) Discuss the epidemiologic features, risk factors, and morphologic classification of cholangiocarcinoma. 2) Describe the typical imaging appearances of cholangiocarcinoma and their correlation with pathologic findings. 3) List the findings that can help differentiate cholangiocarcinoma from other benign or malignant diseases.... |
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Cirrhosis
Provided by: CMElectures
Victor Navarro, MD, is on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University where he leads the hepatology and liver transplant programs. Anthony J. DiMarino, Jr., MD, is division chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Here, they focus on pathophysiologic and clinical aspects of cirrhosis, and especially on the co... |
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Laparoscopic Lysis of Adhesions
Provided by: Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
Innovations in Surgery is a monthly, case-based videoconference and CME webcast educational series providing demonstrations and discussions of new and innovative minimally invasive procedures, devices, and techniques. The overall goal of this series is to enhance participants' knowledge, competence, and skills to perform surgical procedures and im... |
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Caring for the Ostomy Patient
Provided by: National Center of Continuing Education
Ostomies are created to treat various conditions including ulcerative colitis, cancer, and bowel obstruction. Nurses have tremendous impact on how a patient adaps to a new ostomy. This course increases knowledge regarding basic ostomy management, common surgical procedures, and assessment of the stoma. Diet and nutrition issues and psychological fa... |
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Exploring the Role of the Pharmacist in OTC PPI Use for Frequent Heartburn
Provided by: Power-Pak C.E.®
The goal of this program is to acquaint pharmacists and allied healthcare professionals with the appropriate use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) available \"over the counter\" (OTC) for frequent heartburn.... |
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Thoracic Complications of Liver Cirrhosis: Radiologic Findings
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) List the various thoracic complications associated with chronic liver disease. 2) Discuss the mechanisms or pathophysiology of those complications. 3)Describe the imaging features of the various thoracic complications in patients with chronic liver disease.... |
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Pediatric Female Pelvis/GI Abdominal Pain (SAM)
Provided by: American Roentgen Ray Society
ARRS Web lecture series brings presentations by the best educators in the field to your desktop, available for viewing at home or office and on your schedule. This Web Lecture includes 2 lectures with an estimated time to complete the activity of 1.5 hours.... |
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New Enzyme Formulations for Managing Pancreatic Insufficiency in Cystic Fibrosis
Provided by: Prime
Unique Critique is a customizable, interactive, performance-improvement video program providing application-based training to the learner, with subsequent review of comparative data allowing the participant to measure problem-solving skills against peers. Up to 75 question-and-answer scenarios delivered throughout the video case-based learning allo... |
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Celiac CME Central: Defining, Diagnosing, and Managing Celiac Disease
Provided by: Impact Education, LLC
Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of primary care physicians responsible for routine care and follow up of celiac patients.
Statement of Need/Program Overview
Celiac disease is an autoimmune digestive disease that damages the villi of the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients fr... |
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The ASCCP Guidelines for Managing AGC
Provided by: American Society for Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology
This lecture will provide a broad, evidence-based understanding of the best management options for women with the Pap interpretation of atypical glandular cells (AGC).
Atypical glandular cells or AGC, may be the most difficult diagnostic challenge of any of the abnormal Pap categories devised under The Bethesda System (TBS). The Pap interpretati... |
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Naproxen Metabolites Interfere With Certain Bilirubin Assays: Elimination of Interference by Using a Roche Bilirubin Assay on the Hitachi 917 Analyzer
Provided by: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
* outline various methods used in clinical laboratories for measuring total and direct bilirubin.
* explain why there is interference of naproxen with the Jendrassik and Grof method for measuring total bilirubin but not for measurement of direct bilirubin.
* describe situations when s... |
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Complications of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) Identify the causes of complications of CAPD. 2) Recognize the imaging features of complications of CAPD. 3)Describe the strengths and weaknesses of different imaging modalities for the diagnosis of CAPD complications.... |
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Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy: Diagnoses and Imaging Unique to Pregnancy-Self-Assessment Module
Provided by: American Roentgen Ray Society
Peer-reviewed articles from AJR Integrative Imaging. This activity offers 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)(TM) following completion of an online test... |
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Abdominal Pain
Provided by: CMElectures
Amar Singh, MD, a board certified emergency physician at Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses the common causes of abdominal pain, such as appendicitis and biliary disease; life threatening causes of abdominal pain including abdominal aortic aneurysm and intestinal obstruction; and commonly missed causes of abdominal pain.
This lecture and ... |
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Imaging-based Quantification of Hepatic Fat: Methods and Clinical Applications
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1)Describe the advantages and limitations of US, CT, and MR imaging methods for liver fat quantification. 2) Recognize imaging features that are indicative of fatty liver disease and suggestive of its cause. 3) Identify the unique advantages of MR spectroscopy for quantifying liver fat in specific settings.... |
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Electrosurgery and GI Endoscopy
Provided by: Corexcel
After reading Electrosurgery and GI Endoscopy the participant will be able to:
1. Describe the principles of electricity.
2. Understand the basic concept of electrosurgery.
3. Identify the precautions necessary to perform electrosurgery safely.
4. Describe correct return electrode placement to prevent injury.
5. Understand the... |
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Case-based Interdisciplinary Approaches to Improving Nutritional Health in Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis
Provided by: Prime
The maintenance of nutritional health is paramount to successfully managing cystic fibrosis (CF). Approximately 90% of individuals with CF are affected by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), a condition that interferes with normal digestive and absorptive processes. To prevent EPI-related malnutrition, poor growth, and compromised immune and p... |
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Optimizing Care for Patients with IBD: Highlights from the "Advances in IBD" Conference Webcast Series - Current Controversies in IBD Treatment
Provided by: Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) is pleased to present online archives of the three-part webcast series entitled Optimizing Care for Patients with IBD: Highlights from the "Advances in IBD" Conference. These accredited webinars feature highlights from the most widely attended presentations from our 2010 Advances in IBD Crohn’s... |
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Interventional Radiology Procedures in Pediatric Patients with Complications after Liver Transplantation
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) Recognize the vascular and nonvascular complications that may occur after pediatric liver transplantation. 2) Identify appropriate interventional radiology therapies for managing such complications. 3) Describe the effectiveness of these interventional radiology procedures.... |
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GI SAM -Disorders of the Pancreas and GI Motility
Provided by: American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute
The GI SAM series of online self-assessments modules is an interactive, intuitive product that will assess your current knowledge of specific gastroenterology and hepatology-related topics. The complete series will include eight modules covering 16 topics, offering you access to a wide variety of GI and hepatology topics.
Upon completing this ed... |
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MDCT in Selected Abdominal Emergencies: Acute Flank Pain; Small Bowel Obstruction; Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum; The Acute Female Pelvis (SAM)
Provided by: American Roentgen Ray Society
ARRS Web lecture series brings presentations by the best educators in the field to your desktop, available for viewing at home or office and on your schedule. This Webcast includes 4 lectures with an estimated time to complete the activity of 1.5 hours.... |
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Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
Provided by: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
This CME activity on DVD is based on lectures presented at the Johns Hopkins Tenth Annual Conference on Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, held November 6 – 7, 2010. This DVD series is intended as a practical overview for pathologists who encounter gastrointestinal specimens in daily practice. Interpretation of biopsies of the upper GI tract m... |
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Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis and Its Impact on Abdominal Imaging
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) Describe the importance of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. 2) Identify the risk factors for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. 3) Describe ways to minimize the chance of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis while still ensuring safe diagnostic imaging.... |
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Management of Acute Liver Failure in the ICU
Provided by: American College of Chest Physicians
Objectives
1. Describe the common etiologies of acute liver failure.
2. Identify the three major complications that lead to mortality in acute liver failure.
3. Review different strategies for treating patients with cerebral edema.
4. Understand the common organs involved with development of multiorgan dysfunction.
5. Describe... |
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Acetaminophen and Liver Injury
Provided by: ATrain Education Inc.
Acetaminophen use and overuse with focus on signs and symptoms of liver injury, including FDA-recommended potencies for various age cohorts and at-risk populations.
When you finish this course, you will be able to:
* Identify acetaminophen and its use in combination drugs.
* Discuss the causes of unintentional acetaminophen overuse and overdos... |
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Nonvascular Mesenteric Disease: Utility of Multidetector CT with 3D Volume Rendering
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) Describe the utility of volume rendering of multidetector CT image data for evaluating mesenteric disease. 2) Recognize normal and abnormal 3D CT appearances of the mesentery. 3) Identify the most likely cause (neoplastic, infectious, or inflammatory) of mesenteric abnormalities depicted at multidetector CT.... |
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Expression of Hepatocyte Antigen in Small Intestinal Epithelium and Adenocarcinoma
Provided by: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
* describe the pattern of Hep Par1 immunoreactivity in nonneoplastic small intestinal and colonic epithelium.
* define the usefulness of Hep Par 1 immunostaining in the differential diagnosis of various hepatocellular and nonhepatocellular neoplasms.
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The Importance of Ultrasound in Evaluating the Liver: Diffuse Liver Diagnoses; Benign Liver Tumors; Malignant Liver Tumors (SAM)
Provided by: American Roentgen Ray Society
This Web cast consists of three presentations (slides and audio) demonstrating the detection of liver disease, including benign and malignant liver tumors, using ultrasound, and has an estimated time to complete the activity of 1.5 hours.
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MR Imaging of Liver Fibrosis: Current State of the Art
Provided by: Radiological Society of North America
Learning Objectives: 1) Discuss the clinical relevance of detection and characterization of liver fibrosis. 2) Describe use of liver biopsy in diagnosis and staging of liver fibrosis, including the limitations of this technique. 3) List the MR imaging techniques that have an emerging role in noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis.... |
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Care & Guidance
Provided by: Projects In Knowledge, Inc.
In May 2011, the FDA approved two new drugs for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection: boceprevir and telaprevir. These drugs, when combined with peginterferon and ribavirin, offer significantly higher response rates and shorter durations of therapy compared with the current standard of care therapy and give new hope to HCV-infected patien... |
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