Pediatric Grand Rounds

2004

Jointly sponsored by

Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital

and

Spokane County Medical Society

 4^th Floor Classroom in the Children’s Hospital

8:00am to 9:00am

and via telemedicine in the New Classroom at Sunnyside Community Hospital

Date                                                     Speaker                                   Title of Presentation

May 26                                                   Neil Worrall, MD                               Cardiac Surgery in Children

June 9                                                     Gary Lee, MD                                    Pediatric Intensive Care

June 23                                                   Rick Jensen, MD                                 Digital Echocardiogram & the

                                                                                                                          Evaluation of a Murmur in the Child

Educational Objectives:

1.        Discuss the causes and appropriate treatment of sleep disorders in children.

2.        Describe an approach to the dysmorphic child.

3.        Discuss the epidemiology and proposed causes of autism.

4.        Describe the appropriate treatment of children with autism.

5.        Discuss the approach to and appropriate treatment of the obese child.

6.        Be able to use the physical exam to distinguish the location of the lesion causing stridor in children and know when to refer the patient with stridor.

7.        Discuss the securing of the emergent pediatric airway.                 

8.        Discuss the approach to a child with anemia or idiopathic thrombocytopenia.

9.        Discuss the ethical issues around the end of life in pediatrics.

10.     Describe the recent advances in cardiac surgery of children.

11.     Discuss the care of the pediatric intensive care patient with respiratory failure.

12.     Explain the evaluation and use of digital echocardiography in the child with a cardiac murmur.

Category 1 CME credit is available.  Please complete the evaluation form and sign the attendance roster. 

Contact Tanya Reistroffer @ INHS (232-8122) for viewing via telemedicine.  or Gabriella Barker at Sunnyside Community Hospital.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) CME Accreditation Committee through the partnership of the Spokane County Medical Society (SCMS) and Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital.  The SCMS, a WSMA accredited sponsor, designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12 hours of Category 1 to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission and the American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award.  Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.