Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.
Audio-Digest Internal Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:
Gastroenterology
Hematology and medical oncology
Rheumatology
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
Endocrinology
Infectious disease
Nephrology and hypertension
Cardiology
Geriatric medicine
The goals of this program are to improve the management of cirrhosis and its complications and to improve management of hepatitis B. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Identify the causes of cirrhosis.
2: Describe and implement primary prophylaxis for esophageal variceal bleeding.
3: Screen for and treat major complications of cirrhosis, including ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatic encephalopathy, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
4: Identify hepatitis B patients at risk for progressive liver disease.
5: Describe current concepts of viral resistance and treatment in hepatits B.