Agenda/View Sessions - May 12, 2023

Cardiology

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7:00 am EDT
Acute Coronary Syndromes (2023)

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:

-    Understand the initial assessment of the patient who presents with symptoms suggestive of ACS.
-    Understand the initial treatment differences in STEMI vs Non-STEMI.
-    Learn the potential causes of hemodynamic instability in the patient with ACS.

Speaker(s)

Robert M. Bender, DO, FACOI, Attending Cardiologist and Director Echo Lab, Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute

7:40 am EDT
Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease (2023)

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:
-    Understand the clinical findings in patients with valve disease.
-    Know the indicators for considering valve intervention in patients with significant valve disease. 
-    Understand the pathophysiologic features of common congenital cardiac lesions. 

Speaker(s)

Robert M. Bender, DO, FACOI, Attending Cardiologist and Director Echo Lab, Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute

8:45 am EDT
Diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial Diseases (2023)

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In this session, you’ll learn how to:

-    Understand the importance of the clinical exam in the diagnosis of PAD.
-    Know the risk factors for PAD.
-    Know when to refer patients with PAD for advanced/non-medical intervention.

Speaker(s)

Robert M. Bender, DO, FACOI, Attending Cardiologist and Director Echo Lab, Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute

9:20 am EDT
Arrhythmias and Conduction Disorders (2023)

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In this session, you’ll learn:

-   Basic mechanisms.
-   Case questions
-   Guidelines and clinical correlations.

Speaker(s)

Robert J. Chilton, DO, MACOI, Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center

9:50 am EDT
Management of Chronic Coronary Syndromes (2023)

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In this session, you’ll learn:

-   Basic physiology.
-   Clinical case.
-   Guidelines and discussion.

Speaker(s)

Robert J. Chilton, DO, MACOI, Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center

10:15 am EDT
Congestive Heart Failure (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Define, classify and stage heart failure
  • Discuss guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)
  • Discuss treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
  • Management of hospitalized patients and recognizing Stage D (advanced) heart failure
Speaker(s)

Christopher J. Sciamanna, DO, FACOI, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

10:50 am EDT
Cardiac Risk Factors and Noninvasive Cardiac Diagnosis-ECG, Echo, et al (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Review risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)
  • Assess ASCVD risk and when to initiate statin therapy
  • Review when to get and which stress test to use
  • ECG must-knows
  • Echo must-knows

Speaker(s)

Christopher J. Sciamanna, DO, FACOI, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

11:25 am EDT
Cardiomyopathies (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Define and review classification of cardiomyopathy
  • Discuss pathophysiology and clinical features of specific etiologies causing cardiomyopathy (focus on HCM, cardiac amyloid, myocarditis, stress CMP)
  • Discuss treatment of specific cardiomyopathies

Speaker(s)

Christopher J. Sciamanna, DO, FACOI, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

12:05 pm EDT
Lunch Break

(55 mins)

Nephrology

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1:00 pm EDT
Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Be able to differentiate the categories and subcategories of AKI
  • Be able to differentiate the features acute vs chronic kidney disease
  • Discuss treatments for AKI including fluid management and indications for dialysis

Speaker(s)

Mark D. Baldwin, DO, FACOI, Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

1:35 pm EDT
Tubulointerstitial Disease (2023)

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In this session, you'll:

  • Compare and contrast the key clinical and diagnostic features of glomerular vs tubulointerstitial diseases
  • Describe the renal manifestations of multiple myeloma
  • Discuss the pathophysiology and treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy

Speaker(s)

Mark D. Baldwin, DO, FACOI, Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

2:05 pm EDT
Glomerulonephritis-Diagnosis and Management (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to: 

  • Understand the clinical approach to proliferative glomerulonephritis
  • Understand the value of renal biopsy
  • Understand the workup for hematuria

Speaker(s)

John E. Prior, DO, FACOI, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

2:50 pm EDT
Case Studies of Electrolyte Disorders (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Discuss the key diagnostic features of Syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion and appropriate treatments
  • Explain the the key diagnostic features of central and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus and appropriate treatments
  • Identify the key diagnostic features of Gitelman's and Bartter's syndromes

Speaker(s)

Mark D. Baldwin, DO, FACOI, Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

3:45 pm EDT
Case Studies of Acid/Base Disorders (2023)

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In session, you'll learn how to:

  • Understand the approach to gapped metabolic acidosis
  • Understand the use of the urine anion gap
  • Understand the diagnosis and treatment approach to metabolic alkalosis

Speaker(s)

John E. Prior, DO, FACOI, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

4:20 pm EDT
Hypertension (2023)

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In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Understand of guideline based treatment for hypertension
  • Understand the place of the SPRINT Trial in relation to hypertension treatment goals
  • Understand the workup for hypertension

Speaker(s)

John E. Prior, DO, FACOI, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine