Equip clinicians with the knowledge to diagnose, treat, and prevent heat-related illnesses through a comprehensive, evidence-based virtual course covering thermal physiology, epidemiology, and management strategies.

Overview

The Heat Emergencies: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management CME Course is a virtual, lecture-based 4 half-day course to educate clinicians about how to diagnose, treat, and prevent heat-related illness. The course will describe the current evidence around all heat-related emergencies, including heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and heat syncope. The course will provide a background on the changing epidemiology of heat-related illness, varying definitions of heat, basics of thermal physiology, and individual and population-based approaches to prevention of heat-related illness.

Learning Objectives

Explain the epidemiology of heat related illness and associated disease processes.

Recognize the thermal physiology underlying clinical presentations of heat related illness.

Create a differential diagnosis and develop comprehensive, evidence-based management plans for all forms of heat related illness, including heat exhaustion, heat syncope, and heat stroke.

Describe groups at increased risk for heat related illness and develop anticipatory guidance and prevention plans.

Discuss the pharmacological interactions with heat-related illness and develop plans for protecting patients.

Identify the resources needed and best steps to take for preparedness, diagnosis and treatment of heat related illness during event medicine and in low-resources settings.

Explain the impacts of heat across organ systems, including impacts on mental health and behavioral health and kidney disease.

Apply preventive solutions for heat related illness including from a community based, public health, and health systems approach.