HPC Hospital and Emergency Procedures Course Offers 16 Hours Trauma CME Credit

VENTURA, Calif. - May 15, 2014 - PRLog -- The HPC Hospitalist, Trauma, and Emergency Procedures CME courses are medical conferences that are ACCME-accredited courses that provide 17 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 credit and 16 hours of Trauma CME credit.  Our continuing medical education conferences cover the 20 most essential medical procedures needed in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including all the critical procedures for trauma management in the ER.  Our course teaches you not only how to perform these procedures, but also will teach you how to optimize clinical management using data collected from these various procedures.  Our courses provide medical CME that is approved by all major specialty associations including the AMA, AOA, AAFP, and AANP.

This two-day simulation-based training course is the most comprehensive, evidence-based hospital and emergency procedures CME course available and we have just slashed the early registration discount to provide physicians a $150 DISCOUNT and provides midlevel providers, residents, medical students, and military physicians a $200 DISCOUNT.

Our course covers the following procedures in detail including four hours of hands-on ultrasound training:


Informed consent

Procedural sedation

Central line placement (landmark-guided and ultrasound-guided)

Intraosseous line placement

Venous cutdown

Arterial line placement (radial, femoral, and brachial arterial line insertion)

Ultrasound-guided peripheral IV placement

Endotracheal intubation

Glidescope intubation

Use of an intubating stylet to guide intubation

Laryngeal mask airway (LMA) placement

King tube placement

King tube exchange for endotracheal tube

Awake intubation

Needle decompression

Tube thoracostomy (chest tube placement)

Lumbar puncture (including ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture)

Paracentesis (including ultrasound-guided paracentesis)

Thoracentesis (including ultrasound-guided paracentesis)

Mechanical ventilation

Vascular ultrasound

RUSH exam (Rapid Ultrasonography in Hypotension exam)

E-FAST exam (extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma exam)

Come check out our 2014 offerings at www.hospitalprocedures.org/course-registration