On Demand 2021 Literature Review
On Demand 2021 Literature Review is organized by American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI).
Course opens: 11/19/2021
Course expires: 11/18/2024
Target Audience:
Medical professionals who treat patients with allergic and/or immunological conditions:
• Practicing allergist/immunologists
• Allergy/immunology Fellows-in-Training
• Physician assistants
• Nurses and advanced practice nurses
• Allied health professionals
• Primary care physicians
• Other medical professionals
Overview:
To help you keep abreast of the latest clinical developments in allergy and immunology, ACAAI will continue its highly successful Literature Review program. It's a review of the most important, clinically-focused literature of our specialty published between November 2020 and October 2021, with an emphasis on clinical relevance. Faculty includes allergy-immunology training program directors and specialists in practice.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
• Discuss recent advances in basic science that are relevant to allergy and immunology. Describe recent developments in rhinitis and sinusitis. Recognize the clinical presentation of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta syndrome and distinguish it from common variable immunodeficiency.
• Better diagnose and manage asthma and COPD. Discuss important scientific and clinical advances in the pathophysiology and treatment of urticaria, angioedema and other skin disorders.
• Summarize the role of the microbiome in human atopic diseases. Identify new concepts in anaphylaxis, drug allergy and stinging insect hypersensitivity, as well as utilize clinically relevant findings in these areas
• Identify new concepts in anaphylaxis and stinging insect
• Identify the Immunotherapy to best use in patient treatment
• Discuss recent developments in food allergy
