Michael E. Zenilman, MD, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and Director, National Capital Region, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, MD, presented on Surgical Concerns: Geriatric Syndromes, and William B. Greenough III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, presented an Update on Wound Care, at the 57th Annual Philip A. Tumulty Topics in Clinical Medicine, presented by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Glendale, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2013

The goal of this program is to improve management of elderly patients undergoing surgery, wound care, and care for diabetes. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Predict surgical risk based on comorbidities and geriatric syndromes.

2. Perform specific tests to assess preoperative frailty.

3. Select and effectively apply appropriate dressings to assist wound healing.

4. Use effective antibacterial agents to minimize infection in pressure sores.

5. Weigh evidence about the effects of medications for tight glycemic control, and about the effects of tight control on outcomes.

The original programs were presented by Robert A. Wiebe, MD, Clinical Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Lalit Bajaj, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Research Director, Section of Emergency Medicine, Childrens Hospital, Denver.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

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