COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
9 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$795 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Evaluation of Chest Pain on the Front Lines
- Develop a differential diagnosis of acute chest pain
- Know how to use the Heart Score index in the algorithm for assessment of cardiac chest pain.
- Hyperlipidemia Evaluation and Management Update
- Understand the biology of common clinical lipid disorders
- Become familiar with current clinical guidelines for the management of hyperlipidemia
- Recognize the indications for applying novel therapies for treating lipid disorders
- Cardiac Risk Assessment and Use of Risk Calculators
- Understand the features of common cardiovascular risk calculators
- Apply cardiovascular risk calculators in clinical practice
- Unique Issues in Womens Heart Health
- Appreciate the misconceptions and misperceptions of womens heart health
- Diagnosis and manage common cardiovascular conditions unique to women
- Optimal Medical Therapy for the Management of Stable Coronary Heart Disease
- Know the definition of stable coronary heart disease
- Apply optimal medical therapy to treat coronary heart disease
- Appreciate the evidence in support for medical management of coronary heart disease
- Heart Failure Guidelines Update
- Classify and define various forms of heart failure
- Apply clinical and imaging criteria to diagnose heart failure
- Apply current management guidelines in the treatment for heart failure
- Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines Update
- Understand the indications for anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation
- Apply medical therapy for management of atrial fibrillation
- Become familiar with indications for interventional therapies to manage atrial fibrillation
- Don't Neglect the Impact of Emotions and Stress on Heart Health
- Discuss the neurohormonal and physiologic basis of stress and adverse cardiovascular effects
- Become familiar with stress-related cardiovascular syndromes,
- Counsel patients on basic techniques to manage stress to achieve a health benefit.
- New antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis
- Utilize up-to-date information regarding indications and usage of new antimicrobials
- Develop a reasoned approach to considering antimicrobial prophylaxis per American Heart Association guidelines
- Confusing diagnostics in infectious diseases
- Discuss how infectious disease tests are reported
- Appropriately use and interpret some newer molecular tests for infectious diseases
- Intraabdominal infections and diverticulitis
- Describe the approach to intraabdominal infections and select appropriate antimicrobial therapy
- Skin and soft tissue infections
- Recite common pathogens associated with skin infections
utilize appropriate antimicrobial therapy based on exam
- C difficile and other diarrheas
- Recite common challenging aspects of treating diarrhea in the era of C difficile infection
- Infectious risks in international travelers
- Recite commonly encountered diseases associated with international travel
- Identify necessary items to bring for international travel
- Infectious Disease image review and word association (1-1.25 hrs)
- Recall specific infectious diseases based on keywords and/or images
- Review of SARS-CoV2 since 2020 and update in Mpox
- Understand presentations for covid 19 as well as inpatient and outpatient treatment strategies, and vaccine indications
- Discuss the current status of Monkey Pox and vaccination/li>
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.