Stone Management for APPs (2017)

Member only benefit! Renal stone disease is one of the most common urologic problems seen in clinical practice. The majority of patients can reduce their risk of recurrent stone disease with adherence to dietary changes specific to stone disease and their metabolic workup. Studies have shown improved patient adherence to these dietary recommendations when regular review of their diet is performed with trained personnel. In some cases, patients require additional needs such as added medications(s) to optimize their urine to avoid future stone formation. This will aid in decreasing morbidity and cost of stone incidences years.

The purpose of this activity is to educate Advanced Practice Providers on dietary counseling of patients with renal stone disease to more effectively advise patients and follow up with them on their medical management. During this process the patients will require review by urologists if they develop new stones or symptoms of obstruction which can be effectively triaged by the APPs. Advanced Practice Providers will be able to do initial work up, set up for surgery if indicated, and complete follow up imaging and metabolic work up with patients following surgery.

Target Audience

  • Physician Assistants
  • Advanced Practice Nurses

Learning Objectives

After completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Complete a thorough initial consultation for patients with stones.
  2. Determine the need to treat or observe stone.
  3. Explain surgical options to appropriate candidates.
  4. Interpret metabolic work ups and develop a dietary plan specific for each patient.
  5. Identify and treat those patients with lithogenic risk factors.
  6. Explain Medical Expulsive Therapy (MET).
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Non-Physician Participation
Course opens: 
08/01/2017
Course expires: 
08/01/2020
Price:
$40.00
Rating: 
0

Faculty
The content of this enduring material was developed by
Timothy C. Brand, MD with contributions from
Ashleigh M. Decker, PA-C.

Faculty Disclosures
Timothy Charles Brand, MD:
 Nothing to disclose

Ashleigh Decker, PA-C: Nothing to disclose

Planner Disclosures
Education Council

Christopher Lee Amling, MD: Janssen: Meeting Participant or Lecturer

Gopal Badlani, MD: Lithotripsy Group: Piedmont stone & Physician Discovery: Investment Interest; Society of University Urologist: Leadership Position; NIDDK: Leadership Position

Timothy Charles Brand, MD: Nothing to disclose

Peter Robert Carroll, MD: NIH: Scientific Study or Trial; Department of Defense: Scientific Study or Trial; Myriad Genetics: Scientific Study or Trial; Genomic Health: Scientific Study or Trial; Abbott Pharmaceuticals: Scientific Study or Trial; AUA Update: Leadership Position; Astra Zeneca: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Genome Dx: Consultant or Advisor; Intuitive: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Genomic Health: Consultant or Advisor; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Intuitive Surgical Inc.: Meeting Participant or Lecturer

Sam S. Chang, MD: Janssen: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Astellas: Consultant or Advisor; Dendreon: Consultant or Advisor; NIH: Scientific Study or Trial; Cold Genesys, Inc.: Scientific Study or Trial; Cepheid: Scientific Study or Trial

Pat Fox Fulgham, MD: Urology Clinics of North Texas: Investment Interest

Bruce R. Gilbert, MD, PhD: Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Scientific Study or Trial; Auxilium: Scientific Study or Trial; Clarus Pharmaceutcals: Scientific Study or Trial; Eli Lilly: Scientific Study or Trial; Warner Chilcott: Scientific Study or Trial

Christina Hernandez (AUA Staff): Nothing to disclose

Douglas A. Husmann, MD: Nothing to disclose

Wes Kassouf, MD: Nothing to disclose

Louis Koncz, PA-C: Nothing to disclose

Cheryl Taylore Lee, MD: Adolor: Scientific Study or Trial; Tengion, Inc.: Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial; Endo Pharmaceuticals: Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial; Photocure: Consultant or Advisor; CVI: Consultant or Advisor

Thomas Sean Lendvay, MD: Spi Surgical Inc.: Consultant or Advisor, Owner, Product Development; MIMIC Technologies Inc.: Other

Vinata B. Lokeshwar, PhD: Nothing to disclose

Elspeth Marguerita McDougall, MD: Nothing to disclose

John Patrick Mulhall, MD: Association of Peyronie's Disease Advocates (APDA): Leadership Position; Pfizer: Scientific Study or Trial; Vivus: Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial; Nexmed: Consultant or Advisor; Absorption Pharmaceuticals: Consultant or Advisor; AMS: Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial; Meda: Consultant or Advisor; Lilly: Consultant or Advisor; Alliance for Fertility Preservation: Leadership Position

J. Kellogg Parsons, MD: AMS: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Sophiris: Consultant or Advisor; Watson: Consultant or Advisor

Lee Richstone, MD: Wundercare LLC: Consultant or Advisor

Marianne D. Sadar, PhD: ESSA Pharma Inc.: Leadership Position, Consultant or Advisor, Investment Interest

Karl-Dietrich Sievert, MD, PhD: AMS: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Karl Storz: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Photocure: Scientific Study or Trial; Medtronics: Meeting Participant or Lecturer, Scientific Study or Trial; Allergen: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer, Scientific Study or Trial; Neotract: Meeting Participant or Lecturer

Sheila Stark, PhD (AUA Staff): Nothing to disclose

William Donald Steers, MD: National Institutes of Health: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Allergan: Scientific Study or Trial; New England Research Institute (NERI): Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial

Chandru P. Sundaram, MD: Cook Medical Inc.: Scientific Study or Trial; North Central Section of the AUA: Leadership Position; Journal of Endourology and Videourology: Leadership Position; Society of Urological Robotic Surgeons: Leadership Position

Ashutosh Kumar Tewari, MD: Intuitive Surgical: Scientific Study or Trial; Kalyani Prostate Cancer Institute: Leadership Position; Global Prostate Cancer Foundation: Leadership Position; Peter Georgescu Foundation Award: Leadership Position; Chris Lange Foundation: Other; Peter Kalikow Foundation: Other; Craig Effron Foundation: Other; Tim O'Neill Foundation: Other; Patent for a Catheter-less device and approach: Other; NIH RO1 Funding-PI: Other

Paul Jacob Turek, MD: MandalMed: Leadership Position; Medical Board of California: Consultant or Advisor; BioQuiddity, Inc.: Consultant or Advisor, Investment Interest;HealthLoop.com: Consultant or Advisor, Investment Interest; Doximity, Inc.: Consultant or Advisor, Investment Interest; Fertility Planit, Inc.: Consultant or Advisor, Investment Interest

Alan J. Wein, MD, PHD (HON): Allergan: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Medtronic: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Ferring Pharmaceuticals: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Pfizer; Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Astellas: Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Merck: Consultant or Advisor; opko: Consultant or Advisor; theravida: Consultant or Advisor

APN/PA Education Committee
Jeffrey A. Albaugh, PhD, APRN-BC, CUCNS:
 Sexual Medicine Society of North America: Leadership Position, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Society of Urologic Nurses & Associates: Leadership Position, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Prostate Net: Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Jannetti Publications Inc.: Other; Actient Pharmaceuticals LLC:Consultant or Advisor, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Astellas Pharma: Consultant or Advisor; Medivation: Consultant or Advisor

Roxelyn Baumgartner, RN, APN-BC: Nothing to disclose

Ashleigh Decker, PA-C: Nothing to disclose

Todd James Doran, MS, PA-C: Urological Association of Physician Assistants: Leadership Position; Physician Assistant Education Association: Leadership Position

Susan M. Flick, CNP: Pfizer: Other

Peggy Francis, DNP, RN, MSN, CS, FNP-BC, CUNP: Warner Chilcott: Meeting Participant or Lecturer

Gina Fries, RPA-C: Astellas Pharma US: Scientific Study or Trial

Raymond Matthew Galocy, ANP-C: Nothing to disclose

Michele Huebner, PA-C: Urological Association of Physician Assistants: Leadership Position

Louis Koncz, PA-C: Nothing to disclose

Ralph Raphael Madeb, MD: Nothing to disclose

Thomas P. McBride, PA-C: Adirondack Society of Physician Assistants: Leadership Position, Meeting Participant or Lecturer; Dendreon Corporation: Investment Interest; SeekingAlpha.com: Health Publishing

Heather Schultz, NP: Nothing to disclose

Allen D. Seftel, MD: Auxilium: Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial; Journal of Urology: Leadership Position; Abbott: Consultant or Advisor; Lilly: Consultant or Advisor, Scientific Study or Trial; Journal of Sexual Medicine: Leadership Position; American Geriatrics Society: Leadership Position; Urology Care Foundation: Leadership Position; Mid-Atlantic Section of AUA: Leadership Position; AUA NPP committee: Leadership Position; International Journal of Impotence Research: Leadership Position; Patient Pocket, LLC: Owner, Product Development.

Meredith Vaccaro (AUA Staff): Nothing to disclose

Method of Participation

Learners will participate in this interactive online educational activity by reading through slides and case studies, answering multiple choice questions, examining patient tools and resources and completing the posttest and evaluation. To claim CME credit for this enduring material, learners must complete the posttest, passing with 80% accuracy and submit the program evaluation.

Estimated time to complete this activity: 1.0 hour

Renew Date: August, 2017
Original Release Date: October, 2014
Expiration Date: August, 2020

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  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Non-Physician Participation

Price

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