Elmhurst Seventh Annual Trauma Symposium: Pearls & Pitfalls of Trauma Management: Injury in the Elderly

Friday, October 25, 2024, 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Elmhurst Hospital, Auditorium A1-22, Elmhurst, NY


This program will provide an overview of the assessment and management of the injured elderly patient. This will include the initial assessment and management as well as consideration of issues that are specific to as well as more common in the geriatric population.

1. Review management of the injured patient
2. Describe best practices in the management of traumatic brain injury in the elderly patient
3. Describe the strategies for the optimization of pain management in the elderly trauma patient
4. Identify the signs of elder abuse
5. Define strategies for the rapid reversal of anticoagulant medication

Registration is complimentary

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (5.50 hours)

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

It is the policy of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all accredited CE educational activities. All individuals in control of content of an activity accredited by ISMMS are expected to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies existing within the prior 24 months. Relevant financial relationships are mitigated and disclosed to learners before the activity takes place. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Friday, October 25, 2024