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DVD - Cardiology Update for the Primary Care Practitioner

HOME, COMMUTE or TRAVEL CME™ - Can't attend one of our live seminars? You can now view the best of our live CME courses on Video DVD while following along with the corresponding syllabus materials, just as though you were at the live sessions. These courses include clinical pearls from 19 outstanding faculty members from the country’s leading Institutions. Each course comes with 4 Video DVDs, a coordinated bound syllabus, post-test (also available online), a Category 1 AMA Certificate of Completion and a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Course topics include: Derm; Rad, Primary Care; Ped Emergency Med; Critical Care; Card; Emergency Med; Sports Medicine; Ortho; Aging Population, & Internal Med. We also offer CME courses on MP3 / Audio CD’s. Each course includes Audio CDs with tracks, a coordinated bound syllabus, post-test (available online), a AMA PRA Category 1 Credits (TM) Certificate of Completion and a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Choose from clinical reviews & updates, including: Primary Care: Adult Medicine; Adult, Pediatric, and Women’s Health; Internal Med; Card, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Med; Emergency Medicine; Licensure Requirements; Aging Population; Peds; Ped EM; and Adult Infectious Diseases. Visit our website at http://www.ams4cme.com or call toll free 866-267-4263 for complete details. American Medical Seminars, Inc. also offers 24 Category 1 weekly programs of Live Primary Care Presentations in Sarasota, FLORIDA. Course topics and objectives, along with AMA-PRA, AAFP, ACEP, ACOG, and AAP CME credit details are available at: www.ams4cme.com . Popular morning sessions allow participants time for study, family activities, and recreation. World famous beaches, Ringling Museum, Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, the Asolo Theater, Opera House, Selby Gardens, and Mote Marine Laboratory/Aquarium; two hours drive to Disney World, Sea World and other Florida attractions. TOPICS FOR THIS COURSE ARE: 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.

Expires on: Jul 01, 2011

City: , AL

Cost: $ 365.00

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Link to Program: http://www.ams4cme.com

Specialty / Area of Interest: Cardiology, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Pulmonary Medicine, Women's Health & Ob/Gyn, Emergency Medicine

Category: Medical

Provider of Program: American Medical Seminars, Inc.