Cardiology Update In Primary Care Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach Training Class

Cardiology Update In Primary Care Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach Training Seminar

• Risk factors for coronary artery disease.
  
• Modifiable & non-modifiable risk factors.
  
• How emerging risk factors affect cardiovascular risk.
  
• Causes & consequences of obesity.

• National guidelines for primary & secondary risk reduction.
  
• Treatment of lipid disorders.
  
• How major trials affect decisions on pharmacologic reduction of risk.

• Unstable angina or non ST-elevation infarction & tailor therapy to the degree of risk.
  
• Revascularization.
  
• Determinants of myocardial oxygen demand & supply, & effects of medications.
  
• Step-wise approach to treatment of stable angina.

• How coronary risk factors affect women.
  
• Evaluating chest pain.
  
• Different clinical profiles of men & women with acute myocardial infarction.
  
• Risks & benefits of therapeutic modalities.

• Identify aortic valve disease through history & physical examination.
  
• Role of non-invasive & invasive testing in diagnosis & management.
  
• Medical therapy & indications for aortic valve replacement.

• Anticoagulation in management.
  
• Pharmaceutical & non-pharmaceutical methods of normalizing ventricular rate.
  
• Strategies for cardioversion in atrial fibrillation.
  
• Benefit & harm of antiarrhythmic therapies.

• Identify mitral valve disease through history & physical examination.
  
• Role of non-invasive & invasive testing in diagnosis & management.
  
• Medical therapy & indications for mitral valve replacement & repair.
  
• Symptoms & adverse outcomes that do & do not result from mitral valve prolapse.

• Diagnostic algorithm for differentiating various supraventricular tachycardias.
  
• How to acutely treat & chronically manage reentrant supraventricular tachycardias.
  
• Diagnostic approach for palpitations.
  
• Recognize benign from potentially life-threatening causes of palpitations.

• What the surgical team wants to know.
  
• Elements of preoperative evaluation, including role of non-invasive testing for coronary artery disease.
  
• Perioperative measures which may reduce the risk of cardiac complications.

• Relate differences in plaque morphology to the differences between stable angina & acute coronary syndromes.
  
• Identify acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
  
• Treatment strategies that reduce mortality & the importance of minimizing time delay.
  
• Complications of acute infarction.
  
• Post-infarction risk.

• Important clinical aspects in diagnosis, evaluation & management of cardiac risk factors.
  
• Important clinical aspects in diagnosis, evaluation & management of cardiac symptoms.
  
• Important clinical aspects in diagnosis, evaluation & management of known cardiac diseases.
  
• When to refer complex patients for subspecialty care.

• Hypertension for the general population & various subgroups.
  
• Isolated systolic hypertension.
  
• Low diastolic pressure.

• Which patients need additional evaluation & treatment of ventricular arrhythmias.
  
• Which patients need additional evaluation & treatment of cardiac conduction abnormalities.
  
• Permanent electronic pacemakers.

• Common underlying pathophysiology for all causes.
  
• Benign & life-threatening causes.
  
• Diagnostic yield in the work-up.
  
• Clinical history to help focus the work-up.

• Cardiac etiologies of pulmonary congestion.
  
• Ejection fraction & stroke volume.
  
• Common causes of systolic heart failure.
  
• Standard-of-care therapies, differentiating between treatments which reduce mortality & those that improve symptoms.

• Prevalence & pathophysiology of diastolic heart failure.
  
• Treatment strategies for diastolic heart failure.
  
• Prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
  
• Treatment strategies in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.