Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) Provider/Instructor Course

Thursday, December 15, 2016, 7:30 AM - Friday, December 16, 2016, 5:00 PM PST, Los Angeles

Registration in now closed. Limited on-site registration will be available. 

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Meeting Location:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
The Women’s Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills
Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion
127 S. San Vicente Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Guest Parking: P1, P2 and P4

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This highly interactive 2-day conference will offer presentations and practical workshops in the Cedars-Sinai state-of-the-art Women’s Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills. The purpose of this conference is provide cutting-edge clinical information to non-intensivist practitioners to ensure clinical excellence and improve the quality of care for critically ill or injured pediatric patients prior to the arrival of a pediatric consultant or pending transfer of the patient to another facility. Engage with experts in critical care medicine to enhance critical thinking skills to ensure appropriate and safe action is taken when confronted with urgent and emergent clinical pediatric scenarios.

1. Utilize evidence-based concepts and practices to prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill or injured child or infant
2. Select appropriate diagnostic tests for the critically ill or injured child
3. Respond quickly to significant changes in the unstable pediatric patient
4. Recognize and initiate management of acute, life-threatening conditions
5. Determine the need for expert consultation and/or optimal methodology for pediatric patient transfer
6. Develop team building skills and improve communication through simulations and performance debriefings

Registration in now closed. Limited on-site registration will be available. 

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation Statement 
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

California Assembly Bill 1195

When applicable, course planners and faculty, will incorporate linguistic and/or cultural competency issues relevant to the topic of their presentation. These may include direct communication in the patient-client primary language; understanding and applying the roles that culture, ethnicity, and race play in diagnosis, treatment, and clinical care; and awareness of how the health care providers and patients attitudes, values, and beliefs influence and impact professional and patient relations. (California Assembly Bill Number 1195) For specific information regarding Bill 1195 and definitions of cultural and linguistic competency, please visit http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200520060AB1195.

Course Materials
All meeting materials will be sent electronically. No hard copies will be available.

Parking

Self-parking is available in visitor parking lots P1, P2 (George Burns Road) or P4 (Sherbourne Drive) for a daily rate of $10.00.
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AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ (MD, DO) (16.25 hours), Non-Physician AMA Attendance (17.00 hours)