Students Enrolled:
204 students enrolled
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DR. MEKHAEL
Dr. Mina Mekhael is an adult inpatient hospitalist. He has been practicing as an attending for 7 years since he finished residency. He grew up in the United States and graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology. He then went on to Medical school and from there to Residency in Family Medicine. After Graduating residency, he knew his passion was in hospital medicine and therefore pursued his career as an adult inpatient hospitalist. Dr. Mekhael has taught Internal medicine residents, Family Medicine Residents, Medical students, PA students, and NP students. He is board certified in Family Medicine and is still practicing as a fulltime adult hospitalist until this day. He is passionate about teaching and improving healthcare both in the United States and across the Globe. Dr. Mekhael believes that Hospital Medicine B&B can help reach each student and resident eager to learn how to practice Hospital Medicine appropriately and have that confidence needed to hit the ground running from day 1. Undergraduate College: University of North Carolina at Charlotte- Bachelors of Science in Psychology. Medical School: St. Matthews University School of Medicine. Residency: Atrium Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency.
Course Overview
Welcome to Hematology (2.25 CME)
In this course, we will cover all the common cases of Hematology that you will face in the hospital on a daily basis. From working up anemia, to leukemia, to thrombocytopenia and everything in between. By the end of this section, you should be ready to tackle the most common hematologic abnormalities that you will face in the hospital. This will be done through discussing real life cases, how the patients present, how to diagnose them and how to treat them according to the latest guidelines.
All the cases were reviewed with a Hematologist prior to submission
5 videos, Total Duration 2.23 hours (2 hours and 23 minutes)
Topics covered in this course:
- How to work up anemia
- Gi bleeding anemia
- Iron def anemia vs Anemia of chronic disease
- Bone barrow production physiology
- Hemolysis work up
- Auto immune hemolytic anemia
- Coombs negative hemolytic anemia (MAHA)
- ESRD anemia
- How to read a CBC w diff
- Increase in hgb level, physiologic vs abnormal
- Myeloproliferative disorders
- Polycythemia vera
- CML
- Essential thrombocytosis
- Primary myelofibrosis
- Types of WBC and elevation
- Leukemoid reaction
- AML Acute myeloid Leukemia
- APL- Acute Promyelocytic leukemia
- Leukostasis
- Hyper viscosity syndrome
- Lymphocytosis work up
- CLL Chronic Lymphocytic leukemia
- SLL Small Lymphocytic lymphoma
- Elevated platelets- thrombocytosis
- Low platelets- thrombocytopenia
- TTP- Thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura
- ITP- Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
- HUS- Hemolytic uremic syndrome
- DIC- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- HIT- Heparin induced thrombocytopenia
- Elevated protein
- MGUS
- Multiple myeloma
- Amyloidosis
- Neutropenic Fever
- Aplastic anemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Tumor Lysis syndrome
- Neutropenic Fever
- Common things to know on peripheral blood smear
- How to read protein electrophoresis
- Free light chain assay
- Pancytopenia
- Aplastic anemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Sickle Cell flare
Course Features
- Duration 10 week weeks
- Language Spanish
- Students 204 students enrolled
- Assessments Self
- Categories Medicine
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