Activity Overview
The Hands- On Facial Anatomy Workshop with Ultrasound Guidance will provide innovative education, skills, and techniques that attendees can immediately adapt into their current practice environment to provide safe, effective, and high-level patient care. This will be done utilizing hands-on learning by offering a cadaver dissection session.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for an audience of nurses, physicians, and physician assistants.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the anatomy of the face in terms of volume loss and structural changes in multiple tissue layers
- Identify the functional aspect of facial muscles including surface landmarks
- Assess a patient’s candidacy for facial rejuvenation with neurotoxin, dermal fillers and deoxycholic acid
- Recognize the appropriate anatomical plane for injection when using dermal fillers and deoxycholic acid
- Differentiate among dermal filler agents
- Distinguish between sensory and nerve anatomy
- Perform neurotoxin, dermal filler and deoxycholic acid injections for a range of indications
- Identify anatomical ‘danger zones’ which may result in adverse events or permanent injury if neurotoxin, dermal fillers or deoxycholic acid are injected improperly
- Assess the benefits of utilizing ultrasound technology for guided anatomy mapping and injections
Criteria for Success
There is no fee to participate in this activity. Statements of credit will be awarded based on the participant’s attendance. A statement of credit will be available upon completion of an online evaluation/claim credit form.
Please claim your credit by 4/16/2024
If you have questions about this CE activity, please contact AKH Inc at wendi@akhcme.com
CE credit provided by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Compass. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 6.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
Credit being awarded: 6.5 ANCC contact hours
Physician Assistant
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Commercial Support
All commercial support and educational grants will be communicated to attendees in advance of the meeting.
Disclosures
It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participant's misunderstanding of the content.
