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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.25

Target Audience:

This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Reviewing the reason for replacing the Apparent Life-Threatening Event (ALTE) guidelines with Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (BRUE).
  • Review the Lower Risk Brief Resolved Unexplained Events guidelines.
  • Review the Framework for Evaluation of the higher risk infant after a BRUE.

There is no educational content to this course. This course is designed to only administer the post-test and collect CME evaluations for the podcast associated with this training.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Joel S. Tieder, Joshua L. Bonkowsky, Ruth A. Etzel, Wayne H. Franklin, David A. Gremse, Bruce Herman, Eliot S. Katz, Leonard R. Krilov, J. Lawrence Merritt, Chuck Norlin, Jack Percelay, Robert E. Sapién, Richard N. Shiffman, Michael B.H. Smith, for the SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENTS. Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants. Pediatrics May 2016, 137 (5) e20160590; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-0590
  2. J. Lawrence Merritt, Ricardo A. Quinonez, Joshua L. Bonkowsky, Wayne H. Franklin, David A. Gremse, Bruce E. Herman, Carole Jenny, Eliot S. Katz, Leonard R. Krilov, Chuck Norlin, Robert E. Sapién, Joel S. Tieder. A Framework for Evaluation of the Higher-Risk Infant After a Brief Resolved Unexplained Event. Pediatrics Aug 2019, 144 (2) e20184101; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-4101.>

Authors:
Joel Tieder MD — Associate Professor Dept of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Tony R. Tarchichi, MD — Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC.) Paul C. Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Group
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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