Systems-based Practice

EFM Fundamentals in Practice-12: Risk Management and Patient Safety

Attainment and ongoing maintenance of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) skills is a requirement of all perinatal practitioners who actively participate in the care of pregnant patients. Lack of proper skills or failure to maintain skill in the interpretation and management…

Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Prevention

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) increase healthcare costs, prolong hospital length of stays, and increase the risk of mortality. Healthcare had been making strides in reducing infections associated with central linesuntil recently. To reverse this trend, there needs to be…

The ASAM Criteria Online Foundations Course

Welcome to The ASAM Criteria interactive hybrid asynchronous Online Course designed to help beginner, intermediate, and advanced counselors, social workers, administrators, and other clinical staff develop patient-centered service plans and make objective decisions about patient admission, continuing care, and transfer/discharge…

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course provides eight hours of required education to qualify for the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting and covers essential information for providers to identify, assess, diagnose, and manage patients with…

Second Stage Labor-Part II: Management & Risk Mitigation

The second stage of labor creates the greatest physiologic challenge to both mother and fetus. Oxygen delivery is reduced while oxygen consumption increases during this phase of labor. Certain interventions may help or hinder oxygenation. Using closed-glottis (Valsalva technique), coach-assisted…

Second Stage Labor-Part I: Risk Exposure Case Study

The second stage of labor creates the greatest physiologic challenge to both mother and fetus. Oxygen delivery is reduced while oxygen consumption increases during this phase of labor. Certain interventions may help or hinder oxygenation. Using closed-glottis (Valsalva technique), coach-assisted…

Patients With Service Animals: Concerns and Risk Issues

Dogs and other animals can guide blind people through hazardous street intersections, provide psychiatric therapy to veterans suffering from PTSD, and alert diabetics of hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic events. Today, there is an increased use of service animals by people with…

Hacking Medical Devices: Modern Piracy

Over 10 million Americans rely on medical devices that may be vulnerable to cyberattacks. The COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the public’s reliance on these medical devices, in part because many patients are seeing their healthcare providers via telehealth. The…

Mandatory CME: Key Issues for Florida Physicians

This particular event is a re-stream of CME Track which was originally livestreamed during our 2021 Annual Meeting on Friday, July 30, 2021. All three CME tracks held during our 2021 Annual Meeting were previously approved by multiple ABMS specialty…