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Cardiology Update For The Primary Care Practitioner Training Class |
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Cardiology Update For The Primary Care Practitioner Training Seminar
Overall Objectives
Provided in video DVD format, the overall objective is to provide the participant with practical and clinically relevant information. Upon completion of this CME activity, the physician or healthcare provider should be able to describe the current approach to formulating differential diagnoses, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive management of the various disciplines presented.
Specific Objectives
TOPIC 1 - UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS, NON ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, AND STABLE ANGINA -
- Patient with unstable angina or non ST-elevation infarction and tailor therapy to the degree of risk.
- Who benefits from revascularization.
- Determinants of myocardial oxygen demand and supply, and effects of medications on these determinants.
- Treatment of stable angina.
TOPIC 2 - ATRIAL FIBRILLATION -
- Importance of anticoagulation in the management of atrial fibrillation.
- Pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical methods of normalizing ventricular rate.
- Possible strategies for cardioversion in atrial fibrillation.
- Potential benefit and harm of antiarrhythmic therapies.
TOPIC 3 - SYNCOPE -
- Common underlying pathophysiology for all causes of syncope.
- Benign and life-threatening causes of syncope.
- Diagnostic yield in the work-up of syncope.
- Clinical history to help focus the work-up for syncope.
TOPIC 4 - SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH, BRADYCARDIA AND ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK -
- Which patients need additional evaluation and treatment of ventricular arrhythmias.
- Which patients need additional evaluation and treatment of cardiac conduction abnormalities.
- Indications for permanent electronic pacemakers.
TOPIC 5 CARDIAC EMERGENCIES -
- Differentiate cardiac from non-cardiac pulmonary edema.
- Chronic and acute heart failure.
- Therapies for acute pulmonary edema.
- Cardiogenic shock in hemodynamic and clinical terms.
- Differential diagnosis for shock.
- Importance of revascularization in the patient with shock due to acute myocardial infarction.
TOPIC 6 - WOMEN AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE -
- How coronary risk factors affect women.
- Evaluating chest pain in women.
- Clinical profiles of men and women with acute myocardial infarction.
- Risks and benefits of therapeutic modalities in women with coronary disease.
TOPIC 7 - DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE AND HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY -
- Prevalence and pathophysiology of diastolic failure.
- Treatment strategies for diastolic heart failure.
- Prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Treatment strategies in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Release Dates
Original Release Date: July 1, 2008
Expiration Date: July 1, 2011
Needs Statement
Heart disease and Cardiac disorders are commonly referred for definitive diagnosis and treatment with subsequent long-term follow-up care being provided by Primary Care Providers. Primary Care Providers must therefore maintain adequate knowledge to diagnose, refer and effectively treat commonly seen cardiac conditions, many with possible serious and even fatal consequences if not properly managed. Needs analysis specifically identifies the ability to diagnose Atrial Fibrillation, causes of Syncope, Stable and Unstable Angina and various Cardiac Emergencies as vital skills for the Primary Care Provider. Educational gap analysis has identified two areas that must be addressed: increased knowledge and increased confidence on the part of Primary Care Physicians in managing disorders in Cardiology. To address these needs and close these gaps, an annual update, presenting current thinking and new information, will help Primary Care physicians obtain adequate knowledge and provide them with the confidence to diagnose, refer and provide followup treatment for their patients' cardiac conditions.
About Your Presenters
Craig M. Oliner, M.D., F.A.C.C. - Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiology; Medical Director, Coronary Care Unit, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; and by Alyson N. Owen, M.D. - Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiology; Director of Quality Assurance, Echocardiography Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
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