This course fulfills the DEA 8-hour MATE Act Requirements

An 80-question online exam is required for receipt of 8 hours of ADA/CERP continuing education

·  Refund Policy: 

• All sales are final. If unable to attend a registered course, credit will be applied toward another one of our courses.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) patient and their prevalence in local, state, national, and global environments.
2. Recognize the psychological neurobiological, and physiological causes and effects in the SUD patient.
3. Discuss the Emergency Care and Treatments for SUD patients in a medical practice.
4. Explain how to manage Chronic Pain in an SUD patient.
5. Describe federal, state, and local mandates required of DEA Permitted (DPP) practitioners.
6. Identify ways to identify and guide impaired practitioners for treatment and care.
7. Identify learning materials to further a DPP’s understanding of SUD.

Topics:

1.   Introduction to Substance Use Disorder (SUD): Why Study Substance

           Abuse Disorder.

2a.    The Faces of SUD Part One

2b.    The Faces of SUD Part Two

3.       Emergency Care and Treatments for SUD

4.       How Can the Healthcare Practitioner Contribute to SUD Care?

5.       Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorder

6.       The Impaired Practitioner

LIVE

Component: 3-hours

Essentials of the Airway Simulation

Hands-On Skills

☐ Nasal cannula

☐ Simple facemask

☐ Non-rebreathing facemask

☐ Oral (Guedel) airway

☐ Nasopharyngeal airway

☐ Laryngeal mask airway (LMA); 

☐ King airway

☐ Oral Endotracheal Tube no stylette  (OETT) - sizing and types of adults and children’s

      endotracheal tubes:    Adults: Endotracheal Tube – Women 7.0; Men 8.0    Infants:  AGE + 16    or 

                                                     Children: Size of the  Child’s Little Finger                                                   4

☐ Oral Endotracheal Tube with stylette

☐ Eschmann stylette 

☐ Laryngoscope - Macintosh, Miller, Phillips blades

☐ Video Laryngoscope

☐ Magill Forceps

☐ Bag-valve-mask use for breathing; Bag-Valve-Mask for Laryngospasm

☐ Oro-Gastric tube

☐ Larson’s Maneuver

* Airway Positioning:

☐ Head tilt        ☐ chin lift        ☐ Turn off midline         ☐ Jaw thrust

☐ Sniffing position                    ☐ Neck pillow                 ☐ Shoulder bolster

* Airway Emergency Scenarios:

☐ Cough    ☐ Laryngospasm    ☐ Airway obstruction    ☐ Foreign body   

☐ Cannot ventilate/cannot intubate     ☐ Emergency cricothyroidotomy

☐ Asthma/bronchospasm    ☐ Respiratory depression

* Emergency Scenarios Discussion:

☐ General emergency response       ☐ Hypotension/Hypertension      

☐ Cardiopulmonary arrest                ☐ Allergic reaction to drugs       

☐ Angina pectoris possible myocardial infarction

☐ Emesis/aspiration of vomitus       ☐ Convulsions and seizures  

☐ Over-sedation                                ☐ Hypoglycemia

Academy of Continued Education designates this activity for Sedation Consult continuing education credits. ADA CERP Policies and Definitions Related to Joint Provider-ship May 2023. This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through joint efforts between Academy of Continued Education and Sedation Consult.