Emergency Medicine

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This course considers the approach to the emergent patient. Emphasis is placed on creation of a differential diagnosis, patient stabilization, and emergent management of disease. Topics include but not limited to: general approach to patient triage and stabilization, emergency ophthalmology and otolaryngology, chest pain, acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, pericarditis, aortic Page 247 Catalog 2025 - 2026 dissection, heart failure, pneumonia, asthma exacerbation, COPD,pneumothorax, fractures and sprain recognition and management, wound care, lacerations, animal/human bites, burns, abdominal pain evaluation for biliary tract disease, appendicitis, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and renal colic. Prerequisites:Successful completion of the spring semester of the didactic year of the graduate program in Physician Assistant Studies. The pre-requisites of MS 502B, 503B, 504B, 507, 508A, 509 and 510 are all required.