2010 Presbyterian Pediatric Update

This program is designed for pediatricians, family practitioners, emergency room and other physicians and allied health professionals who care for children. It is intended to familiarize healthcare providers with many common or potentially life-threatening conditions that may occur in infants and older children seen in the office, emergency room or inpatient hospital setting.

Upon completion of the program, participants will be better able to:

• Define nutritional anemia.
• Discuss nutritional causes and appropriate treatments for nutritional anemia. 

• Discuss appropriate referrals for feeding team evaluation.
• Define of Failure to Thrive.
• Discuss individuals who compose the feeding team and their respective contributions for failure to thrive patients.
   
• Describe the substance abuse and behavior challenges among school-age children and youth.
• Discuss why education is a public health concern and how you can promote it.
• Discuss the requirement of all NM school districts to adopt the coordinated School Health Model (CSHM) and how that relates to your work.
• Describe at least three activities APS is doing to support behavioral health needs.
   
• Describe how to do a basic allergy evaluation from your office.
• Discuss the nuances of RAST and skin testing; pros and cons of different tests.
• Discuss other diagnostic techniques: Patch testing, oral challenges, etc.
• Discuss alternative / unproven techniques.
   
• Discuss the approach to children in pandemics -- social controls and pharmacologic.
   
• Describe the significance of motor vehicle crash injuries in the pediatric population.
• Review local and national laws and regulations governing child restraint use.
• Describe the "best practices" and "tough choices" in child restraint installation.
• Review local and national resources for further information on child passenger safety.
   
• Distinguish tics from focal seizures.
• Identify common conditions that are co morbid with tics.
• Describe the semiology of benign centrotemporal epilepsy of childhood.
• Discuss the spectrum of febrile seizure disorders.
   
• Describe the AAP routine health maintenance guidelines for children without chronic conditions of varying developmental ages and stages.
• Describe the health maintenance supervision guidelines for children with Trisomy 21, asthma, and ADHD.
• Discuss transition care of children from the hospital to clinic environment so that nothing is missed in the child’s care.
• Describe how to access referrals and when to make those referrals to specialists.
• Discuss how to respond to parents who refuse to vaccinate.
   
• Identify the changing nature of pediatric hypertension.
• Describe the evaluation of a patient with hypertension and identify thecommonly used medications to treat pediatric hypertension.
   
• Explain nutritional needs and growth of the preterm infant in the first year.
• Describe developmental issues and respiratory problems in the preterm infant.
• Discuss follow up for the preterm infant after discharge from the hospital.
   
• Describe the current epidemiology of childhood overweight.
• Recognize the continuum of unhealthy overweight to the development of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents.
• Describe the role of puberty in the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.
• Identify cardiovascular risk factors in overweight children leading to increased risk of premature heart attack, stroke, and vascular disease.
• Characterize the types of diabetes overweight children are developing, the difficulty in accurate diagnosis of diabetes type, and treatment rationale.
• Diagnose co-morbidities of childhood overweight, including:
   
  1. Orthopedic risk
  2. Pseudo tumor cerebri
  3. Sleep apnea
  4. Poor self-esteem
  5. Fatty inflammation of the liver
  6. Chlolelithiasis
  7. Polycystic ovarian syndrome
  8. Early puberty and advanced bone age
      

The annual Presbyterian Pediatric Update was established to provide practicing physicians and allied health practitioners with a reasonably priced opportunity to obtain high quality CME in pediatric and neonatal fields. The nominal registration fees are made possible through funding provided by the Presbyterian Children's Program, the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation and education grants from corporate supporters.