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Presented by: Karen Marzlin and Cynthia Webner
Course Description:
This 8-part course is designed to provide the cardiovascular clinician with comprehensive content to excel in the care of the cardiac patient. It is ideal as a complete curriculum for cardiovascular nurses and APRNs in a variety of clinical settings. The posttests serve as an excellent tool for validating knowledge.
Course Content:
Session 1 Comprehensive Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Session 2 Excellence in Cardiac Rhythm Management
Session 3 Cardiac Diagnostics Bootcamp
Session 4 All Things Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndromes
Session 5 Everything Heart Failure and Hypertension
Session 6 Cardiac Pathophysiology Potpourri: Valvular, Inflammatory, Myopathies, Channelopathies & Obstructive Shock
Session 7 12 Lead ECG Mastery
Session 8 The Connected Heart: Cardiopulmonary, Cardiorenal, and Cardiovascular
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this program, the participant will be able to:
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Discuss the physiological basis for drugs used to support hemodynamics in the acutely ill cardiac patient.
- Utilize an evidence-based approach to determine the best pharmacologic treatment plan for the most common cardiovascular disorders: acute coronary syndrome and heart failure.
- Identify hypertension treatment strategies based on the most recent evidence-based guidelines.
- Discuss the clinical implications of antiplatelet and anticoagulant medications.
- Evaluate systems and processes aimed at improvement in medication adherence.
Excellence in Cardiac Rhythm Interpretation
- Compare and contrast arrhythmias of conduction abnormality with arrhythmias of abnormal impulse initiation.
- Discuss the physiologic mechanism of AV blocks.
- Review primary treatment strategies in atrial fibrillation.
- Differentiate VT from SVT with aberrancy utilizing morphological clues on the ECG.
- Review the action potential as it relates to the effect of antiarrhythmic medications.
Cardiac Diagnostics Boot Camp
- Apply physical assessment skills in the evaluation of cardiac symptoms.
- Utilize cardiac auscultation to identify abnormal cardiac disorders.
- Discuss ECG abnormalities identified to diagnose cardiovascular disorders.
- Compare the diagnostic information obtained from the ECG and the echocardiogram.
- Contrast the criteria for stress testing to the criteria for diagnostic cardiac catheterization in a patient presenting with chest pain.
- Utilize data from pulmonary artery catheter to make clinical treatment decisions.
All Things Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Discuss the physiological basis for coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndromes.
- Review ECG findings specific to the recognition of ACS.
- Compare and contrast treatment strategies for STEMI from treatment strategies for NonST-ACS.
- Review antiplatelet strategies in the treatment of ACS.
- Identify complications in the post myocardial infarction patient.
Everything Heart Failure and HTN
- Differentiate heart failure with reduced LVEF from heart failure with preserved LVEF.
- Describe the NYHA classification system and the ACC/AHA stages of heart failure.
- Recognize heart failure patients through physical assessment and diagnostic results.
- Correlate pharmacological treatment strategies with current evidence-based guidelines.
- Identify non-pharmacological treatment strategies for heart failure with reduced and preserved LVEF.
- Identify hypertension treatment strategies based on the most recent evidence-based guidelines.
Cardiovascular Potpourri
- Correlate the signs and symptoms of valvular heart disease with the associated hemodynamic changes.
- Discuss evidence-based treatment strategies for valvular heart disease.
- Identify pathophysiological changes associated with restrictive, hypertrophic, arrhythmogenic and Takotsubo cardiomyopathies.
- Identify clinical presentation associated with restrictive, hypertrophic, arrhythmogenic and Takotsubo cardiomyopathies.
- Discuss treatment options for the patient with restrictive, hypertrophic, arrhythmogenic and Takotsubo cardiomyopathies.
- Discusses etiology, presentation, and patient management strategies for pericarditis, endocarditis, and myocarditis.
- Correlate clinical assessment findings with obstructive shock states.
12 Lead ECG Mastery
- Differentiate normal from abnormal patterns on each lead of the 12-lead ECG.
- Determine cardiac axis using lead I and aVF.
- Contrast the features of right bundle branch block from the features of left bundle branch block.
- Describe the 12-lead ECG features seen in atrial and ventricular hypertrophy.
- Recognize normal variants, myocardial mimics, and ECG changes associated with, electrolytes, and medications.
- Identify patterns of infarct, injury, and ischemia on the 12-lead.
- Utilize morphology in Lead V1 and V6 to differentiate ventricular tachycardia from SVT with aberrant conduction.
The Connected Heart
- Differentiate ventilation from perfusion deficits in the pulmonary circuit.
- Differentiate metabolic from respiratory disorders utilizing blood gas data.
- Identify pathophysiology of acute respiratory failure.
- Describe the five types of cardiorenal syndrome.
- Review key features of acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
- Discuss treatment strategies for acute kidney injury.
- Recognize signs and symptoms of acute limb ischemia
60.0 hours of continuing education (contact hours) will be offered with this program, which includes 10.5 hour of pharmacology CEs. CNEA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number 15714.