Cardiology and Emergency Medicine for Primary Care

Cardiology and Emergency Medicine for Primary Care – 12 Credits 

Overview
This conference is designed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in Cardiology and Emergency Medicine, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Cardiology and Emergency Medicine, with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

Target Audience
All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about issues in Cardiology and Emergency Medicine in Primary Care.

Speakers
Our presenting national faculty speakers make it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care clinicians. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help you learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier during a 20-minute office visit.

Topics and Objectives

Friday, February 18

Aortic Stenosis: An Old Disease with New Treatment Options
Objectives: 1) Understand the basic pathophysiology of AS 2) Understand the newer concepts in timing of valve replacement, role of stress testing, and biomarkers 3) Transcatheter aortic valve intervention – how is it done, how does it compare with surgical AVR, and whom to refer

Atrial Fibrillation: Practical Management, Monitoring, and Anticoagulation Options 
Objectives: 1) Understand the risk of thromboembolism in AF 2) Understand the importance of detecting asymptomatic AF in patients with stroke 3) Understand what to do with device-detected AF 4) Understand new anticoagulants

Deadly Headache Disorders You Can’t Miss!
Objectives: 1) Discuss the clinical presentation of select deadly headache disorders, including carbon monoxide, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, and meningitis 2) Identify pitfalls in the diagnosis of select headache disorders 3) Describe current evidence-based treatment of catastrophic causes of headache

How to Kill with Just Your Prescription Pad: Dangerous Drug Combinations!
Objectives: 1) Recognize commonly encountered deadly drug combinations 2) Highlight the dangerous nature of some commonly utilized medications

Saturday, February 19

Orthopedic Emergencies for the Primary Care Physician
Objectives: 1) Identify pitfalls in the diagnosis of patients with a septic joint 2) List critical features from the history and physical exam in patients with compartment syndrome 3) Discuss the latest evidence-based treatment of patients presenting with “fight bite” and high-pressure injection injuries

Modern Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Objectives: 1) Identify the signs and symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury 2) Discuss the management of patients with mild traumatic brain injury 3) List the indications for return to work or school for patients with traumatic brain injury

Diabetes and CAD: The Sweet and the Sour
Objectives: 1) Understand the clinical intersection of diabetes and CVD 2) Determine the impact of established and new therapies for diabetes in cardiovascular risk

Pulmonary Hypertension
Objectives: 1) Review the etiology of pulmonary hypertension in adults 2) Differentiate between precapillary and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension 3) Discuss diagnosis and new medical therapies for pulmonary hypertension 4) Determine appropriate surgical treatment for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Sunday, February 20

Office Management of Heart Failure: Focus on the Geriatric Population
Objectives: 1) Understand the specific diagnosis of CHF in the elderly 2) Understand the common causes of CHF exacerbation in geriatric populations 3) Understand the lifestyle modification and drug therapy of CHF with emphasis on the elderly

Mitral Regurgitation
Objectives: 1) Understand the basic pathophysiology of MR 2) Review the timing of mitral valve surgical intervention – when to treat an asymptomatic patient with severe MR 3) Discuss emerging catheter-based therapies for MR

The Eyes Don’t See What the Mind Doesn’t Know!
Objectives: 1) Identify patients at risk for elder abuse and neglect 2) Describe useful screening tools in the recognition of elder abuse 3) List resources for patients and families who are victims of elder abuse

Catastrophic Causes of Neck and Back Pain
Objectives: 1) Identify concerning features from the history and physical exam in patients with a life-threatening cause of neck and/or back pain 2) Discuss pitfalls in the diagnosis of patients with vertebral artery dissection 3) Discuss pitfalls in the diagnosis of spinal epidural abscesses 4) State the indications for emergent imaging in patients presenting with acute neck and/or back pain

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