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1. Evaluate acute and chronic abdominal pain.
2. Choose between commonly-ordered liver function tests for clinical significance.
3. Explain what you need to know about Hepatitis C.
4. Determine the current best practices in colon cancer prevention.
5. Understand which medical conditions respond to probiotics.
6. Analyze the best strategies to determine the source of the GI bleed.
7. Explore important updates in Clostridium difficile treatment.
8. Plan to incorporate the newest strategies for successful treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

• Assessing Abdominal Pain
• The diagnostic tool chest
• Learn from memorable case studies
• How the PQRST system helps make the diagnosis:
• P: Positional, palliating, provocative factors
• Q: Quality
• R: Region, radiation, referral
• S: Severity
• T: Temporal factors
• Looming emergency or just an ileus?
• Assessing Elevated Liver Function Tests
• Clinical importance of liver function tests
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A new epidemic
• Identify at-risk patients and the best treatments available
• Commonly-encountered gallbladder duct dilemmas
• The A, B, Cs of Hepatitis
• Colon Cancer Prevention
• Best practices for colon cancer prevention
• Who needs a colonoscopy?
• Hemoccult, “FIT,” and “Cologuard”
• What you need to know about “interval” cancer
• Young patients with colon cancer
• Clostridium Difficile Challenges
• Understanding the importance of a “carrier state”
• Clostridium difficile prevention
• Antibiotic choices
• How to assess recurrences
• Potential risks of fecal transplants
• How Probiotics may help
• How many recurrences until we utilize fecal transplant?
• Avoiding complications
• Evaluating and Treating GI Bleeding
• Assessing your patient
• Upper, lower or small bowel source
• Advanced techniques to localize the source of bleeding
• Non-surgical treatment of GI bleeding
• Our great challenge: The very elderly population and GI bleeding
• Successful Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• How we make a diagnosis in 2018
• Are we missing another diagnosis?
• Importance of “alarm symptoms”
• Partnering with your patient
• Understanding a FODMAP diet
• OTC medicines that help
• Latest treatments

Peter Buch, MD, AGAF, FACP, is a double board-certified clinical gastroenterologist leading a team that treats all GI conditions. Dr. Buch sits on editorial boards for numerous professional journals and is a highly sought-after international presenter.

Dr. Buch has a passion for teaching. His style is case-based, practical, very interactive and evidence supported. Dr. Buch’s expertise has been shared with experienced clinicians and advanced level students. He teaches at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Frank H Netter School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University and the University of Connecticut APRN School. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Peter S. Buch has employment relationships with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Frank H Netter, MD School of Medicine. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Peter S. Buch serves on the FDA and Patient Care Committees at the American College of Gastroenterology. He serves as an editor of peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, the AGA Academy of Educators, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGAF), the American College of Physicians (FACP), the Hartford County Medical Association, the American College of Gastroenterology (FACG), and the Connecticut State Medical Society.
Content Disclosure:

Dr. Buch references the use of antidepressants for Irritable Bowel Syndrome; and the controversial use of Fibrotest to evaluate patients with fatty liver disease who may have fibrosis of the liver. Dr. Buch indicates he wishes to present a fair and balanced approach to practitioners regarding such practices.

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Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists - Credit Expired: 3/15/2021
No CE available for this board.

California Nurses: PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #:17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Other Professions
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Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physician Assistants