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Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Distinguish pathophysiology, clinical signs, and risk factors for pulmonary embolism in children.
  2. Summarize recommended diagnostic approach and the utility of clinical prediction rules for pulmonary embolism in children.
  3. Describe the therapeutic management of pulmonary embolism in children.

Disclosures

The authors, faculty and staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity and their spouses/life partners (if any) have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial organizations relevant to this educational activity.

Price: FREE

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: PEC0219
Published: February 2019
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Pediatric Emergency Care
Required Passing Score: 4/5 (80%)
Authors: Nidhya Navanandan, MD, Jill Stein, MD, and Rakesh D. Mistry,MD, MS
Categories: Emergency Care , Emergency Medicine , Pulmonary
Specialties: Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Pulmonary
Topics: Pediatric , Pulmonary Embolism