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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 Pediatrics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Allergy & seasonal concerns

Cardiopulmonary disease

Dermatologic problems

Cancer in children and adolescents

Fever

Gastrointestinal problems

Genetic concerns

Hearing impairment

Infectious disease

Neurologic problems

Newborn screening

Nutritional concerns

Psychosocial issues

Respiratory disease

Sports injuries

Urologic disease

Visual impairment

The goals of this program are to improve management of conditions (eg, respiratory syncytial virus [RSV]) recently updated in the American Academy of Pediatrics 2009 Red Book, and to improve the management of common pediatric injuries and maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Explain the changes in the Red Book recommendations for the use of palivizumab in the prevention of RSV.

2: Describe the 2 currently available meningococcal vaccines and recommendations for their use.

3: Effectively manage common pediatric trauma, including injuries to the head, upper extremities, wrist, and ankle, as well as burns and animal bites.

4: Recognize signs of sexual abuse when evaluating pediatric injuries.

5: Discuss some of the challenges and pitfalls in the diagnosis of maternal and congenital CMV infection.