Tick-borne Illness: An Emerging Threat

Aug
5:00pm
Tick-borne Illness: An Emerging Threat

By EB Medicine
Live Online 1-Hour Discussion with Q&A
Thursday, August 25, 2022
1:00pm-2:00pm EDT
Price: $0 (a $99 value!)
Course Description:
Tickborne disease is an emerging health threat in the United States, and ticks are known to transmit bacterial, viral, and parasitic disease to humans. While early treatment of tick-borne illness usually results in good outcomes, a missed diagnosis can lead to disability and death. In the urgent care setting, tick-borne illnesses can be challenging to diagnose due to nonspecific presentations and the limitations of testing in early disease.
This 1-hour didactic led by Dr. Christopher Chao will address:
Identification and recognition of tick-borne illnesses that may be encountered in the United States
Proper tick removal procedure in the urgent care setting
The limitations of laboratory testing for tick-borne illness
The signs and symptoms of tick-borne illness
Selection of appropriate antibiotic therapy for both prophylaxis and therapeutic management of tick-borne illnesses
The current IDSA guidelines for management of Lyme Disease
A recording of this presentation will be available within one week of the event and link will be emailed to all registrants.
Who Should Attend:
Physicians and advanced practice clinicians practicing in urgent care
Faculty:
Christopher Chao, MD
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Dr. Chao is an urgent care physician with WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed Family Medicine Residency (Rural Track) at Carolinas Medical Center. After practicing for several years in a rural clinic, he made the transition to urgent care medicine. Dr. Chao is the current President of the College of Urgent Care Medicine and an active member of the Urgent Care Association. He is passionate about teaching and mentoring students and clinicians who want to transition to the practice of urgent care medicine.
Joseph Toscano, MD📷
Joseph Toscano, MD, received his MD from Duke University School of Medicine in 1989 and trained in internal medicine at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. He has been an attending emergency physician at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, California, since 1999 and is currently Chief of the department. Dr. Toscano has worked in urgent care since 2005 and was previously a partner and corporate medical director for Pinnacle Medical Group, which operated five urgent care clinics in California and Arizona. In addition to caring for patients and working as senior research editor for Emergency Medicine Practice, he is a member of the editorial boards for the journals Evidence-Based Urgent Care, Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. He also develops and reviews continuing medical education programs in urgent care and emergency medicine for a variety of other publications and organizations and is currently the clinical content coordinator for the Urgent Care Association.
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