CME Sponsor:
National Association for Continuing Education (NACE)

Location:
Online CME

Course Instructors/Directors:
Arthur L. Weaver, MD, MS (disclosures included)
Alan Brown, MD
Jefrey Lieberman, MD
Harvey Parker, PhD
Michelle Frisch, MPH
Alan Goodstat, LCSW

Number of Credits:
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Registration Fee:
Free

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Detailed Description:

Welcome to the National Association for Continuing Education webcast of our New Perspectives in the Management of Rheumatic Diseases: Update 2009.  The topic of this webcast is Gout and Other Crystal Arthritides: Improving Outcomes

The program was captured live in Hallandale, Florida on September 26, 2009 and features Dr. Arthur Weaver.  Dr. Weaver is Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Section of Rheumatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Learning Objectives

After completing this program participants should be able to:

  1. explain the clinical criteria that support a provisional diagnosis of gout
  2. identify existing and new therapies that have been shown to favorably alter the symptoms of acute gout
  3. discuss the appropriate urate goal when using chronic urate-lowering therapy and explain when uric acid levels should be measured; identify allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome
  4. explain strategies for the best long-term management of gout