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Learn About Lung Cancer and What the Primary Care Physician Needs To Know

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Learn About Lung Cancer and What the Primary Care Physician Needs To Know on webcast.  This webcast will discuss Lung Cancer: What the Primary Care Physician Needs To Know. This activity will review the epidemiology, staging, and initial treatment of lung cancer. In addition, the approach to the incidental pulmonary nodule will be discussed.

Primary care providers and hospitalists are on the front line and are usually the first ones to suspect lung cancer in patients. Because of this, it is incumbent on all physicians and advance practice providers who see adult patients to be able to recognize the earliest signs of lung cancer and to initiate the workup. Our presenter, Dr. Jim Allen, will be discussing a lot of the exciting driver-directed medications used in lung cancer today. The reality is that the medical oncologists are generally going to be the ones to make decisions about which particular drug is best for each individual patient. Instead, his presentation will focus on what the non-oncologist needs to know.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

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

  • Improve how quickly patients with suspected lung cancer are directed toward appropriate treatment by educating physicians on the correct tests to employ for diagnosis and staging.
  • Improve primary care providers’ correct selection of either thoracic surgeons or medical oncologists for initial referral of lung cancer treatment.
  • Improve the percentage of patients with lung cancer diagnosed at early, curable stages by increasing utilization of lung cancer screening CT scans.

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.

Learn How to Approach Airplane Emergencies on Webcast

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Learn How to Approach Airplane Emergencies on Webcast. Viewers Learners should be able to differentiate different types of common in-flight medical emergencies. Learners will learn what medical supplies are usually available on a flight and the generalized approach to a patient with an in-flight medical emergency. Learns will become familiar with laws and regulations that pertain to in-flight emergencies.

For this topic, we’ve invited one of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Emergency Medicine experts Dr Hilary Stroud. Hilary is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and has special expertise in Point of Care Ultrasound.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

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

  • To become familiar with in-flight equipment and laws and regulations
  • Common in-flight medical emergencies and how to approach the situation

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Medical Complications to Flying
  • International Flights
  • Legal Protections

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.

Learn About An Approach to Muscle Weakness in Primary Care

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OSU Wexner Medical Center logo Learn About An Approach to Muscle Weakness in Primary Care. Today, fortunately, we don’t see much polio. The inactivated poliovirus vaccine was approved for use in the United States in 1955, and the oral polio vaccine was approved in 1957. With mass vacations, wild cases of polio dropped to a mere 30 confirmed cases in 2022. But there are plenty of other causes of weakness. The differential can be quite diverse.

So for today’s topic on the Approach to Muscle Weakness in primary care, we’ve invited two of Ohio State University’s Neuromuscular experts. First, Dr Matthew Burford is an Assistant Professor of Neurology specializing in Neuromuscular Medicine. And, Dr Michael Isfort is also an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Ohio State who is fellowship trained in both clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular medicine.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

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

  • Differentiate true weakness from fatigue and asthenia\
  • Recognize patterns of localization to guide diagnostic testing
  • Localize weakness and associated symptoms to different components of the peripheral nervous system/motor unit.
  • Review common and uncommon neurological conditions affecting the peripheral nervous system and formulate an approach to diagnosis and treatment.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Urgency
  • Strength Grading

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 CPT Coding Tips: The Codes You Probably Forgot To Bill

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OSUWexnerbloglogo2014 Learn About CPT Coding Tips: The Codes You Probably Forgot To Bill. In addition to determining payment, Medicare also dictates what documentation is required in the patient’s medical record to justify billing any given CPT code. As we are going to see today, there are some pretty major changes in CPT coding and documentation this year, particularly for outpatient office visits. With that as an introduction, let me introduce today’s guest. Dr. Neeraj Tayal. Dr. Tayal is a general internist and Professor of Internal Medicine at the Ohio State University. He is going to start off today’s program with an overview of changes in outpatient office visit coding. For the second half of today’s webcast, I’ll be updating you on some of the outpatient and inpatient codes that many physicians don’t know about and can help ensure that you are being reimbursed for services that you are probably already providing.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: provide a framework for selecting billing codes in the ambulatory setting based on diagnosis, data, risk and total time; equip billing providers with information needed to properly bill for prolonged services and telehealth services; using a case-based approach, learn about the correct CPT codes to bill for clinical services provided; and document appropriately in the medical record in order to meet Medicare requirements to bill these CPT codes.

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.

Get a Better Understanding on How to Reduce Readmissions

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OSUWexnerbloglogo2014 Get a Better Understanding on How to Reduce Readmissions. On this CME webcast, we’re going to take a close look at hospital readmissions, what causes them, what we can do in the hospital to reduce them, and what we can do in the ambulatory setting to reduce them. Joining me today is hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dr. Brian Doyle.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DEFINE readmissions and describe factors associated with readmitted patients; and DESIGN an introductory approach to address readmissions in their own healthcare setting.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Measures to reduce readmissions
  • Length of stay and readmission rates
  • Structure of the Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
  • What nurses and respiratory therapists can do to reduce readmissions

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.