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Pectus Webinar: Diagnosis and Management

Introduction

Pectus Webinar: Diagnosis and Management is a webinar that provides an overview of chest wall anomalies from initial presentation, evaluation, surgical and non-surgical treatment and care. Pectus Excavatum and Pectus Carinatum will be reviewed as well as the advanced practice provider’s unique role in the authors’ experience of establishing an independent bracing clinic. Content will also include recent updates and newest developments in this field. The course is applicable to the advanced practice provider as well as the nurse who helps care for any child with chest wall anomalies.

Faculty

Kim McHard APRN, MSN, CPNP-PC
Kim is a nurse practitioner with the Department of General Pediatric Surgery, working at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She maintains an independent clinic for chest wall anomalies such as Pectus Excavatum and Pectus Carinatum. She coordinates the multi-disciplinary team meetings and participates in research with the Center for Pectus and Chest Wall Anomalies. Along with this, she provides care to pediatric general surgery patients, as well as precepting new providers and teaching learners of all levels. She has served multiple roles in both the NAPNAP and APSNA organizations for many years.




Beth Orrick APRN, FNP-BC
Beth is a nurse practitioner working at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. She is currently working in the ambulatory surgery clinic serving general pediatric surgery and pectus patients. She has been the Co-chair for the Chest Wall Anomalies Special Interest Group for APSNA since 2018. She works to educate through research and publications and is involved in many ongoing projects. She has presented nationally and locally and has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals on pectus and the pediatric general surgery population.




Amy Pierce APRN, PPCNP-BC
Amy is a nurse practitioner working at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. She is currently working in ambulatory clinic serving general pediatric surgery patients. She has been the Co-chair for the Chest Wall Anomalies Special Interest Group for APSNA since 2018. She works to educate through serving as a preceptor and has presented at the national level many times, to highlight her research, practice and publications. She also serves her community through volunteerism in several outreach programs.

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Learner objectives

1. Identify pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum
2. Identify key points of the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and perioperative considerations
3. Describe the surgical management of pectus excavatum with newest developments
4. Identify non-surgical treatment options for pectus carinatum
5. Describe the components of developing a pectus carinatum bracing clinic

Course Details

Contact hours 1.0 CE
Open date: 9/27/2022
Close date: 9/27/2025
Cost 15.00 Members/20.00 Non-Members

 
Updated 2025