On Demand 2016 Monday General Sessions
You can earn up to 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
This collection covers general sessions from Monday's program. This includes plenaries, symposia, and several workshops. The sessions listed below are included in this package.
- Immunity Gone Bad
- Asthma in 2016: Advances in Understanding Origin, Presentation and Approaches to Management
- W27 - Management of Asthma: Beyond Just Medications
- W30 - Hyper IgE and Hypereosinophilia: When to Worry and How to Evaluate
- W33 - Primary Immune Deficiency: Antibiotics and Other Treatments
- W28 - Atopic Dermatitis In-depth
- W31 - Delayed Hypersensitivity Drug Reactions: Dilemmas in Diagnosis and Treatment
- W29 - Alcohol, Marijuana, Hookah and Additive Allergies
- W32 - Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Other Swallowing Disorders
- W34 - Allergies in Infants and Very Young Children
- Modern Therapies for Allergic Skin Diseases
Release Date: 12/01/2016
Expiration Date: 11/30/2019
Accreditation
The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation
The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the role of viruses and bacteria in asthma inception and how infectious agents could serve as potential targets for asthma prevention
- Discuss common asthma phenotypes among preschool children and how treatment response to common asthma therapies may be different among these phenotypes
- Recognize and treat the autoimmune complications of primary immunodeficiency
- Describe the role of the inflammasome in innate immunity and disease
- Describe autoimmune complications and auto-inflammatory syndromes and the use of biologics in their treatment
- Appropriately identify who will benefit from biologic therapy to decrease burden of disease in a cost-effective manner
- Review some of the evidence for the nonpharmacological (integrative medical) approach to asthma management, including complementary medicine (CM), lifestyle and mind-body strategies
- Discuss some of the practical and safety issues involved, i.e. exercise, smoking cessation, diet and lifestyle changes
- Recognize how to offer, present and follow these options to patients using a shared decision-making approach
- Recognize clinical manifestations of hypereosinophilic disorders
- Choose appropriate diagnostic tests in the evaluation of hypereosinophilia
- Interactively discuss a patient with recurrent respiratory infections and the appropriate office evaluation
- Appreciate the importance of antibiotic prophylaxis in the management of immunodeficiency
- Recognize the current and evolving treatments for primary immune deficiency
- Outline an evidence-based therapeutic ladder for management of atopic dermatitis
- Recognize pitfalls in successful management/ reasons for treatment failure
- Discuss common delayed drug hypersensitivity reactions presenting to the allergist/immunologist
- Describe how to perform drug skin testing, including intradermal and patch testing
- Recognize the clinical symptoms associated with alcohol sensitivity reactions and its evaluation and management
- Give insight into the health implications of water pipe tobacco smoking/hookah and the use of marijuana
- Discuss the presenting symptoms associated with food additive allergy
- Discuss the pathophysiology and differential diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and other similar swallowing disorders
- Discuss the diagnostic options and evolving treatments for EoE
- Discuss new and current recommendations for diagnosis and management of childhood asthma
- Apply new and current diagnostic and therapeutic options in respiratory allergies and other conditions in pediatric patients
- Determine appropriate treatment options and which biologic therapies will benefit patients with atopic dermatitis
- Discuss the evolving role of the allergist in the diagnosis of contact dermatitis
- Discuss the approach to patients with pruritus and identify new treatment modalities which will be useful to treat pruritus and other allergic skin diseases
Available Credit
- 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 16.75 Attendance
- 4.00 MOC