Overview

Patient Case Discussions – presented by Sam Miotke, MD

Accreditation

HealthPartners is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

HealthPartners Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and/or Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

Objectives

Regularly attending this series will allow participants to be able to:

• Discern specific dressings that would be utilized in management of different severity and amount of surface area burns
• Describe how to prevent complications that burn patients are at risk of acquiring, utilizing specific strategies
• Apply strategies to improve the outcome of the burn injury as it pertains to scar management and prevention of contracture
• Identify three areas to focus on from the nursing perspective to improve the outcome of burn injuries