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An Osteopathic Approach to Lymphatic Drainage & Consent and Capacity


Total Credits: 1.75 including 1.75 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)

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State Associations:
TOMA - Texas
Faculty:
Carol Browne, DO, FACOFP |  Daniel Pearson, MD
Duration:
1 Hour 41 Minutes
Expiration:
Never expires.


Description

An Osteopathic Approach to Lymphatic Drainage

This session will be a review of the osteopathic approach to effectively treating the lymphatic system. The session will emphasize the rationale for the treatment sequencing and offer practical, time-efficient techniques for the busy osteopathic physician to offer their patients to improve lymphatic circulation to improve health and homeostasis.

Objectives:

  • Explain the rationale for the sequencing of osteopathic lymphatic treatment.
  • Learn to perform thoracic inlet/outlet release techniques to "open the drain" to facilitate all lymphatic approaches.
  • Know the indications, contraindications, the principles, and steps of effective osteopathic lymphatic treatment.

Consent and Capacity

During this session, the speaker will define and describe consent and capacity in hospitalized patients and their ability to actively take part in their own medical decisions.

Objectives:

  • Understand the principles of informed consent
  • Understand how capacity determines ability to consent
  • Understand the function of surrogates in consent/capacity.

Statement of Accreditation
The Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. TOMA designates is program for a maximum of 1.75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Grievance Policy
All grievances may be directed to TOMA's Executive Director at toma@txosteo.org. All grievances will receive an initial response within 30 days of receipt.  If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, they can submit a complaint to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

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Faculty

Carol Browne, DO, FACOFP's Profile

Carol Browne, DO, FACOFP Related Seminars and Products

UIW-SOM


Dr. Carol Browne is a Texas native born in Corpus Christi. She received her B.A. in biology at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and her D.O. degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center-Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNTHSC-TCOM). She completed her residency in Family Practice at the Fort Worth Osteopathic Medical Center, and she is board certified in Family Medicine (FM) and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (NMM-OMM). 

Dr. Browne was previously a faculty member at UNTHSC-TCOM for ten years in both the Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine departments. She received several honors while on faculty including the Coleman Clinical Faculty of the Year, Honors Professor for Pre-Clinical Division, the Gender Equity Award, as well as the National Student Osteopathic Association George Northrup Award for Osteopathic Educator of the Year. After leaving UNTHSC-TCOM, Dr. Browne was in private practice in FM/OMM, in both Missouri and Florida. Dr. Browne was excited to "come back home" to Texas to serve as a founding faculty member at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine. She was recently promoted to full professor in the Clinically Applied Science Education Department.  

In addition to her faculty responsibilities, Dr. Browne is the Texas Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians President-elect, an American Board of Osteopathic Family Physicians examiner, as well as a National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examination Complex Level 2 and 3 item writer and test reviewer. 

Dr. Browne discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.


Daniel Pearson, MD's Profile

Daniel Pearson, MD Related Seminars and Products

Methodist Dallas Medical Center


Daniel B. Pearson, III, Ph.D., M.D. Is a General Adult Psychiatrist whose primary hospital is Methodist Dallas Medical Center, in Dallas, Texas, The largest of the six hospitals in the Methodist Hospital System.   He provides Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Evaluation and Treatment for patients on the various Specialty Services throughout the hospital.  
In addition, he is a volunteer faculty member of the Methodist Family Practice Residency Program.

He attended University of Texas San Antonio Medical School, both for medical school and for psychiatric residency.

For the Methodist Hospital System, he was the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry for almost twenty years.  
He has served as President of the Medical Staff for Methodist Dallas Medical Center and as Chairman of the Corporate Medical Board for the Methodist Hospital System.  He continues to take part in Medical Staff governance, serving on various committees, including Chair of the Corporate Ethics Committee.

He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and has served in various positions with the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians and its affiliate organizations.

Dr. Pearson discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.


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