Description: 

Pediatric Cardiothoracic Morbidity & Mortality Conference Regularly Scheduled Series: Pediatric medicine is an extremely rewarding but challenging field. Pediatric morbidity and mortality is especially hard on family and hospital staff who have become so invested in these patients’ care. Some degree of morbidity and mortality will always be expected, but as a designated Children’s hospital, we strive to reduce our M&M to as low as possible and to learn from cases where unexpected or unfortunate outcomes occurred. Often, these outcomes are multifactorial in the making – ranging from social determinants of health to challenging handoffs, communication issues, systems issues, etc. This M&M conference series will monthly discuss Pediatric Cardiothoracic morbidity and mortality. This conference series will address the gap/need for discussion of cases and current and expert information to provide the best patient care management for complicated challenging pediatric cardiothoracic patients.

Target Audience: 

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives: 

After Attending This Activity Learners Should Be Able To:

1. Utilize evidence-based medicine to identify care and treatment options for optimal treatment of complex and unusual pediatric cardiothoracic patients.

2. Demonstrate Cultural Humility in interactions with families of diverse cultures and belief systems and how they perceived health and illness and responded to various diseases, symptoms and treatments.

3. Identify and proactively address social determinants of health that increase risk of poor pediatric cardiothoracic health outcomes.

4. Evaluate the relationships between multifactorial contributors to poor pediatric cardiothoracic outcomes so as to apply such learnings to future complex cases.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Sutter Health, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statement

Sutter Health designates this RSS activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians and 1.00 continuing professional development contact hours for nurses. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Note to Other Disciplines: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits HOURS™ Continuing Medical Education is acceptable for meeting the continuing education requirements for Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Respiratory Care Practitioners. For other disciplines, please check with the regulatory board for your discipline to confirm what type of credits meet the continuing education requirements. Continuing education hours for nurses accredited by ANCC, via Joint Accreditation.

Attendance & Credit Claiming

Text the 6-letter attendance verification code to (916) 866-7913 to claim credit.