Sunday, February 12, 2017
This conference has already taken place.
Description
This is a 7-Night Eastern Caribbean Cruise Conference - Round-trip Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. In order to register and get additional information for this conference, you must visit the following link: https://universityatsea.com/coursedetails.php?prog...
Nephrology Essentials and Case Studies provides the physician with a working knowledge of clinically relevant and up-to-date topics in clinical nephrology using a combined lecture and case study approach. This review will provide a practical overview of commonly encountered problems in clinical nephrology, focusing on prevention, diagnosis and management. For each topic, nephrology essentials will be reviewed and illustrative cases explored and discussed. Participants will be invited to share their clinical experiences, concerns, and insights.
Dates and Times
Start: 2/12/2017 8:00 AM
End: 2/19/2017 5:00 PM
Objectives
- Clearly understand the stages of chronic kidney disease and be able to enumerate the common disease entities that result in chronic disease.
- Recognize common complications of chronic kidney disease especially anemia and abnormalities of calcium and phosphorus metabolism, their pathophysiology and management.
- Be familiar with the incidence of hypertension in the community, its demographics and complications, and be able to describe the approach to management of the difficult to control hypertensive patient.
- Recognize the renal complications of diabetes mellitus, its pathophysiology and approach to management.
- Describe the different types of kidney stones, their pathophysiology and management.
- Recognize the significance of proteinuria, describe the common diseases associated with proteinuria, andunderstand the management of proteinuria.
- Learn the approach to management of the stable renal transplant patient and be able to recognize and anticipate the major complications.
- Describe the pathophysiology and etiology of hyponatremia in clinical practice and have an understanding of the approach to its management.
Speakers
Location
Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas
University @ Sea
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Accreditation
The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.