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Learn About Clinician Approaches to Tobacco Cessation on Webcast Series

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Learn About Clinician Approaches to Tobacco Cessation on Webcast Series.  Participants will gain an understanding of evidence-based strategies to support patients in quitting tobacco including behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy options. Actuarily, on average, a woman who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will live 11 years less than a woman who doesn’t smoke. Men who smoke a pack a day live 12 years less than non-smoking men. If you do the math, that works out to 14 minutes of life lost for every cigarette a person smokes. It’s a childhood epidemic with 90% of smokers beginning before age 18. By the time they are adults, they are fully addicted and quitting becomes very hard because of the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.   But the good news is that we can help ameliorate those symptoms to help patients quit their nicotine habits.

Joining us today are two of the Ohio State University’s tobacco cessation experts. Lindsey Lee is a clinical pharmacist in the Division of General Internal Medicine. And Suzanne Higginbotham is also a clinical pharmacist in the Division of General Internal Medicine.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Understand the health impacts of tobacco use
  • Apply evidence-based cessation strategies and interventions for nicotine dependence
  • Implement appropriate treatment and follow up protocols to enhance patient adherence and reduce relapse

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Nicotine dependence tests
  • The pharmacist’s role in tobacco cessation
  • Nicotine replacement strategies for the heavy smoker
  • Cytisinicline (cytisine)
  • Pharmacologic approach to inpatients who are smokers
  • Pharmacologic approach to the smoker with coronary artery disease
  • Tobacco cessation and adolescents
  • Weight gain and tobacco cessation
  • E-cigarettes and tobacco cessation
  • Cough increase in the short-term after smoking cessation
  • Tobacco cessation in the habitual marijuana smoker
  • Over the counter pharmacologic therapies
  • Pharmacist prescriptive authority

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn About Pulmonary Function Testing and Office Based Spirometry on Webcast

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Learn About Pulmonary Function Testing and Office Based Spirometry on Webcast. This webcast will discuss Pulmonary Function Testing & Office Based Spirometry. In the first half of the program, learners will gain an understanding of the key updates in the 2022 ATS/ERS pulmonary function test (PFT) guidelines. We will discuss how these revisions differ from the 2005 standards in areas such as test interpretation, reference values, and diagnostic criteria. In the second half viewers should expect to learn key updates in PFT interpretation, including the impact of the new reference standards and revised criteria for classifying severity of impairments and bronchodilator responsiveness. Learners will also appreciate common physiologic impairments on PFTs and develop an approach to interpreting PFTs.

Pulmonary Function Testing can be a useful way to detect and monitor disease. So on this program, we have invited two Ohio State University’s Pulmonary experts to teach us how to interpret PFTs and recent updates to PFT interpretation including the 2022 American Thoracic Society & European Respiratory Society joint guidelines. First, we’d like to welcome Dr Matthew Huang, who is an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine who specializes in treating Asthma and COPD.  Second, we have Dr Gennie Wang joining us. She is the Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Testing Lab at Ohio State and a clinician-scientist studying Women’s lung health disparities.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • To understand common physiologic impairments on PFTs.
  • To develop an approach to interpreting PFTs.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Indications
  • Spirometry vs PFTs
  • 2022 Updates
  • Accurate PFTs

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn How to Approach Oncologic Emergencies

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Learn How to Approach Oncologic Emergencies on webcast. This webcast will discuss Oncologic Emergencies. This presentation will review several common oncologic emergencies. The presenters will use case presentations to highlight each condition and review Febrile Neutropenia, Hypercalcemia of Malignancy, Spinal Cord Compression, Tumor Lysis Syndrome, Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy complications. They will also review the clinical guidelines.

To discuss emergencies that we should not miss in our cancer patients, we’ve invited two Ohio State University’s Emergency Medicine Physicians. First, we have Dr. Jason Bischof who is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and in addition to his clinical work, does research. Next, we have Dr. Maegan Reynolds who is also an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and is also Pediatric EM trained.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Describe common presentations of oncologic emergencies and review the diagnostic evaluation and management of oncologic emergencies.
  • Discuss advances in oncology treatment and how to approach treatment to rapidly developing new therapies.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Disposition
  • Undiagnosed Cancer
  • Cancer vs Complication
  • Immunotherapy

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn About Dual Diagnosis Treatment on Webcast 

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Learn About Dual Diagnosis Treatment on Webcast. Learn About Dual Diagnosis Treatment on Webcast. Today, we understand that Dual Diagnosis is common. Nearly 50% of individuals with severe mental illnesses also struggle with substance use disorders. Individuals with dual diagnoses have a higher risk of suicide, can be resistant to standard therapies and often face stigma and barriers to care. This makes knowledge of dual diagnosis management an important aspect of our practice.

For today’s program, we’ll delve into the latest strategies for managing dual diagnosis. To do that, we’ve invited one of Ohio State University’s Addiction Medicine experts, Dr. Natalie Klag. Dr. Klag is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and is board certified in both Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine and also serves as the Associate Program director of the OSU Addiction Medicine fellowship.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Describe various clinical presentations of substances of abuse
  • Describe basic tenants of dual diagnosis management.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Education
  • Terminology
  • SSRI and Alcohol

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn More About Physical Activity for Health on Webcast

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This webcast will discuss Physical Activity for Health. This program is meant to discuss the benefits of physical activity for patients. The program will begin with describing the recommended amount of physical activity and exercise. The presenters will also go through details of an exercise prescription. The bulk of the talk will focus on how physicians can approach the conversation of increasing physical activity during an appointment and use motivational interviewing techniques to engage patients in exercise.

On this webcast, we have three experts from Ohio State University. Dr. Jeanne Caligiuri is an Internal Medicine Primary Care physician and Assistant professor at Ohio State. In addition to winning multiple “Best Doctor” awards, she was also a competitive ballroom dancer and Zumba instructor. Next, we have John Paro who is the Associate Director of Ambulatory Community Wellness and Outreach here at Ohio State University. Last but not least Kelly Urse is the Wellness Program Manager at Ohio State who is American College of Sports Medicine credentialed in Exercise is Medicine.

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • How the physician can approach the conversation of increasing physical activity during a medical appointment.
  • Define physical activity guidelines and how to motivate your patient to get started.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Exercise Physiology
  • Prescribing Exercise

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.