Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, and Cardiology

Topics:

1. Management of Congestive Heart Failure: Updated Guidelines for the Primary Care and Acute Care Provider
   • Differentiate heart failure due to systolic and diastolic dysfunction.
   • Assess prognosis based upon NYHA class and Ejection Fraction.
   • Apply the evidence-based approach to current pharmacological and advanced device therapy treatment guidelines.
2. Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation: Updated Guidelines for the Primary Care and Acute Care Provider
   • Understand the assessment of bleeding and thromboembolic risk for atrial fibrillation.
   • Assess patient candidacy for warfarin and novel oral anticoagulant therapies.
3. Assessment of acute chest pain: Updated Guidelines for the Primary Care and Acute Care Provider
   • Only 30% of patients with acute chest pain have a cardiac etiology
   • What are best-practice clinical and diagnostic modalities to be used in assessment
   • Incorporation of cardiac imaging tests in the ED evaluation of chest pain.
4. Acute Coronary Syndromes: Updated Guidelines for the Primary Care and Acute Care Provider
   • Acute coronary syndromes are a medical emergency; the acute care practitioner must be capable of recognizing, diagnosing, beginning initial therapy, and initiate the multidisciplinary team approach to this life-threating emergency.
   • The use of cardiac biomarkers in acute diagnosis.
   • The early initiation of medical therapy, and when to initiate interventional therapy.
5. Management of Symptomatic Stable CAD: Updated Guidelines for the Primary Care and Acute Care Provider.
   • Appreciate in which patients are percutaneous coronary intervention and surgical revascularization are useful.
   • Review novel medical therapies for stable CAD.
6. Endocarditis: Who are you going to call-Cardiology, Infectious Disease or Cardiac Surgery?
   • Review of clinical criteria for diagnosis of endocarditis.
   • Appreciate the indications for surgical and medical therapy for endocarditis.
7. Management of Hyperlipidemia: Updated Guidelines for the Primary Care and Acute Care Provider
   • Review the evidence to support the use of statins for primary and secondary prevention.
   • Review the evidence to support the elimination of non-statin therapy from lipid treatment guidelines.
   • Understand the role of PCSK9 inhibitor therapy and other emerging therapies in management of dyslipidemia.

Additional topics under development