Description
This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of tuberculosis in the United States, covering disease burden, epidemiology, and clinical recognition. It discusses TB incidence trends, mortality rates, and multi-drug resistant cases, emphasizing how TB affects diverse populations including non-U.S. born individuals. The presentation explores when clinicians should suspect TB based on patient symptoms, risk factors, and diagnostic test results, including constitutional, respiratory, and extrapulmonary manifestations. It concludes with an explanation of how TB services are organized across federal, state, and local agencies.
Target Audience
This course is designed for allied health professionals, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, resident/fellows, and healthcare professionals working in a public healthcare setting.
Learning Objectives
- Explain recent TB trends in the U.S.
- Identify major TB risk factors
- Recognize signs of pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB
- Describe the basic TB diagnostic process
- Understand how agencies work together to control TB
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