How to Survive and Thrive in the Heat 🥵: An Interview with a Wilderness Medicine Instructor🌲

 

CME link for Episode 33:  https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10093878

 

How to Survive and Thrive in the Heat: An Interview with a Wilderness Medicine Instructor

FACULTY:

Robert Sanders, MD is the Director of Ambulatory Operations, Department of Pediatrics, UT Health San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano-Long School of Medicine.  He is also a wilderness medicine instructor.

 

OVERVIEW:
Pediatrics Now Host, Producer and Author Holly Wayment interviews Dr. Robert Sanders about how to survive and thrive in the extreme heat. 

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at-home/Pages/Protecting-Children-from-Extreme-Heat-Information-for-Parents.aspx

 

https://www.nhtsa.gov/campaign/heatstroke

 

https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index

 

https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/heatTracker/

 

https://www.uiltexas.org/health/info/heat-stress-and-athletic-participation

 

 

DISCLOSURES:
Robert Sanders, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

 

The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  

 

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.

 

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.75 AMAPRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

CREDITS:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.75)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.75)