CME: Out of Africa: Ebola Virus Disease, an Urgent Public Health Concern
ACCREDITATION EXPIRED: February 16, 2017
Activity Description / Statement of Need:
The Ebola is a filovirus whose clinical manifestations are initially non-specific and largely constitutional: fever, chills, fatigue, headache, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Soon afterward, the clinical presentation of Ebola virus disease (EVD) progresses to a diffuse, generalized, nonpruritic, maculopapular rash around the trunk, limbs, and mucosal tissue. Ultimately, the symptomology progresses to skin desquamation, fulminant hemorrhagic fever and, oftentimes, death, arising from a pathophysiology that includes lymphocyte cell death, elevated cytokine concentrations, and coagulopathy. With the incubation period of two to 21 days, the case mortality rate has reached as high as 90% in past epidemics to closer to 50% more recently.
It has been noted that individual patients, communities, and response teams composed of healthcare professionals alike must confront a number of challenges in the face of EVD epidemics, including public panic, missteps by authorities, and distrust of healthcare providers fueled by adornment of protective material that renders them unidentifiable and the inability to visit hospitalized loved ones during their sickness or after death prior to internment. The present epidemic is recognized by no less than the director-general of the World Health Organization and others as being the “worst Ebola outbreak in the nearly four-decade history of this disease.”
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Target Audience:
Healthcare professionals who may come in contact with patients exposed to ebola or have EVD.
Commercial support for this program has been received from Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Grifols Pharmaceuticals.
Release Date: February 16, 2015 -- Expiration Date: February 16, 2017
Faculty: David Cennimo, MD
Agenda
Learning Objectives
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Recognize and describe symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in a presenting patient
- Given a patient presenting with EVD-like symptoms, describe his/her risk factors and stratify the patient�s risk
- Describe safety precautions related to treating patients with EVD
- Design a treatment plan for a patient diagnosed with EVD
- Describe therapies presently in development for EVD
Accreditation
ACCREDITATION FOR THIS COURSE HAS EXPIRED. YOU MAY VIEW THE PROGRAM, BUT CME / CE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND NO CERTIFICATE WILL BE ISSUED.
Faculty Disclosure and Resolution of COI
As a provider of continuing medical education, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. In accordance with this policy, faculty and educational planners must disclose any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, and any relationships with the commercial supporter of the activity. The intent of this disclosure is to provide the intended audience with information on which they can make their own judgments. Additionally, in the event a conflict of interest (COI) does exist, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure that the COI is resolved in order to ensure the integrity of the CME activity. For this CME activity, any COI has been resolved thru content review ScientiaCME.
Faculty Disclosure: David Cennimo has no financial relationships to disclose
Disclosures of Educational Planners: Charles Turck, PharmD is an officer and part owner of ScientiaCME, LLC with no relevent financial disclosures.
Commercial Support Disclosure: Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Grifols Pharmaceuticals
Instructions
- Read the learning objectives above
- Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowledge gained by participating in this CME activity.
- View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
- Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
- Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.
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Please take a few minutes to participate in the optional pre-test. It will help us measure the knowledge gained by participating in this activity.