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Preparing Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs for Disasters
Objectives:
- Review the practical challenges for CYSHCN during disasters, especially identifying populations in their practice more vulnerable to disasters.
- Review the lessons learned for our group during the Texas Storm Disaster of 2021
- Create a template for disaster preparedness
Speakers:
Adam Rosenbloom, MD, MPH
Sera Bonds, MPH
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Principles of Inpatient Billing and Coding: Primer and Pitfalls
Objectives:
- Recognize various “drivers” for facility payment
- Describe the importance of documentation and diagnoses related to coding
- Discuss how coding may impact quality metrics
Speakers:
Vanessa L Hill, MD, FAAP
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Positive Parenting Strategies for Sleep and Mental Health
Objectives:
- Demonstrate evidence of impact of sleep-wake patterns on health and resilience on children and adolescents
- Discuss the various psychosocial and lifestyle factors involved in parent-child sleep health patterns and sleep dysregulation
- Utilize positive parenting strategies and motivational interviewing skills (including the ABCDE method) to improve sleep health and parent-child wellbeing and mental health
Speakers: Nadia Sabri, MD
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20 Things You Can Do To Create a Medical Home for Complex Kids Ethics
Objectives:
- Identify activities within their current medical office practice that will need repurposing to create the components of a medical home for CMC
- Select appropriate strategies to use in creating a family-centered approach to CMC
- Design various protocols that create team-based care within their current office environment for CMC
Speakers:Fredrick A McCurdy, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAP, FACPE
Ernest D Buck, MD, FAAP
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Review of Updated Asthma Guidelines for Inpatient Providers
Objectives:
- Discuss diagnosis and management of patients with asthma according to the updated guidelines
- Discuss and apply the new pharmacologic recommendations for controlling asthma.
- Discuss management of hospitalized patients with asthma according to the updated guidelines
Speakers: Sarah Bradley, MD
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No session in this track at this time
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Management of Common Conditions, DME, and Authorizations-Clinical Pearls for Medical Care of Children with Medical Complexities Ethics
Objectives:
- Identify the various therapy and/or durable medical equipment needs for CMC as well as those medical diagnoses that qualify CMC for such equipment
- Select appropriate strategies to achieving successful prior authorizations for therapy and DME in patients with CMC.
- Design various protocols for the management of common conditions exhibited by CMC.
Speakers:Fredrick A McCurdy, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAP, FACPE
Rahel Berhane, MD
Ruchi Kaushik, MD
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Discussion of Opioid Use in the Inpatient Setting
Objectives:
- Discuss safe and effective pain management for hospitalized pediatric patients.
- Apply multimodal approaches to pediatric pain management.
- Discuss medication safety for patients taking opioid analgesics.
Speakers: Kevin T Chu, MD
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Critical Congenital Heart Disease: Current Texas Status – What can Pediatricians do? Ethics
Objectives:
- Specify the purpose and components of state-mandated newborn pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD).
- Integrate CCHD screening into routine newborn/NICU care and provide appropriate follow-up and referrals based on screening results.
- Discuss how Texas pediatricians can improve the quality of CCHD screening in Texas newborns.
Speakers: Alice Gong, MD
Charleta Guillory, MD, MPH, FAAP
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Evaluation and Management of Well-Appearing Febrile Infants 8 to 60 Days Old: A Review
Objectives:
- Review new neonatal fever guidelines
- Identify the major changes in evaluation of well-appearing febrile infants
- Apply the age-base algorithm when evaluating fever in the well-appearing infant
Speakers: Erika M Ondrasek, MD
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Genetic Testing and Counseling for Primary Care Providers for Treatable Neurogenetic Disorders
Objectives:
- Identify the appropriate initial genetic testing for patients with global developmental delay, autism, and other common neurodevelopmental diagnoses
- Recognize appropriate strategies for pre test and post test counseling families from the informed consent process to test interpretation
- Recognize common barriers in access to genetic testing as well as strategies to successfully address these barriers
Speakers: Lisa Emrick MD
Roa Sadat, MMSc, CGC
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