Glendale, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2013

Audio-Digest Foundation announces the release of Emergency Medicine Volume 30, Issue 17: Pulmonary Disease.

The goal of this program is to improve the management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumonia in the emergency department. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Evaluate and compare various agents for the treatment of asthma. 2. Safely initiate intubation and ventilation in the refractory asthma patient. 3. Utilize appropriate tests to distinguish COPD from other diseases. 4. Recognize the indications for antibiotics in treating acute exacerbations of COPD. 5. Determine classification of risk in the patient with pneumonia.

The original programs were presented by James K. Takayesu, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Residency Director, Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Sandra M. Schneider, MD, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY.

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.

Recent researchers have hailed from Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, UCSF, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of California, San Diego, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and many others.

Out of these cutting-edge programs, Audio-Digest then chooses the most clinically relevant, edits them for clarity, and publishes them either every week or every two weeks.

In addition, Audio-Digest publishes subscription series in conjunction with leading medical societies: DiabetesInsight with The American Diabetes Association, ACCEL with The American College of Cardiology, Continuum Audio with The American Academy of Neurology, and Journal Watch Audio General Medicine with Massachusetts Medical Society.

For 60 years, the global medical community of doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other medical professionals around the world has subscribed to Audio-Digest specialty series in order to remain current in their specialties as well as to maintain their Continuing Education requirements with the most cutting-edge, independent, and unbiased continuing medical education (CME).

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Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Emergency Medicine Volume 30, Issue 17: Pulmonary Disease