Dec 25, 2016
The practice of emergency medicine is no longer a one size fits all
approach. Furthermore, most of your patients are not usually
'average' as described in journal articles. With more data, newer
analytic techniques, and a better understanding of pathologies, we
can isolate the exact and most appropriate therapies for our
individual patients. We're already doing it, but we should be doing
it better. Learn how to be systems thinkers and become better
providers.
Using examples from emergency medicine, I will show how a
comprehensive approach to patient care can be beneficial for
guiding theories and therapies tailored for an individual. This
concept of precision medicine allows us to incorporate all
knowledge and processes in to one picture rather than segregating
medical care in to buckets. We will also discuss some of the
challenges in this type of thinking and best practices for
translating in to your every day work.