Description

Faraz Alizadeh, MD – Course Director

Pediatric Cardiology Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

Christina Ronai, MD, MSEd – Speaker

Director, Single Ventricle Program Associate Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
Oregon Health & Science University

 

George Taylor, MD – Speaker

Staff Radiologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

Douglas Mah, MD – Speaker

Director, Pacemaker and ICD Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

Nancy Braudis, RN, MS, CPNP – Speaker

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

Lisa McCabe, RN, MS, CCRN – Speaker

Program Manager, PCICU, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital

 

 

Michael Freed, MD – Speaker

 

 

 

Christina VanderPluym, MD – Speaker

 

 

Thomas Kulik, MD – Speaker

 

 

Overview

This bundle of five courses reviews the basic approach to diagnosis and treating children with congenital heart disease. Highlights of this course bundle include basic overview of cardiac anatomy and physiology, clinical presentation and pathophysiology of various congenital heart diseases, diagnosis and management of congestive heart failure, and approach to testing rheumatic heart disease.

This bundle contains 5 courses, which can also be purchased individually:

Cardiology Assessment and Evaluation (1.25 hrs)
Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology (0.25 hrs)
Congenital Heart Disease (2.75 hrs)
Congestive Heart Failure (1 hr)
Rheumatic Heart Disease (0.75 hrs)

This content was created by OPENPediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical education platform for healthcare professionals. Please see www.openpediatrics.org for more information.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Develop an approach to taking a cardiac history and performing a cardiovascular focused physical exam
2. Develop a systematic approach to interpreting chest radiographs and electrocardiograms in children with congenital heart disease
3. Explain the common presentations of specific congenital heart lesions that present at varying ages in children
4. Describe the pathophysiology of congestive heart failure
5. Develop management strategies for treating patients with congestive heart failure
6. Identify how to diagnose a child with rheumatic heart disease and list related treatment options

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 6.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosures

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:

Faraz Alizadeh, MD	None
Christina Ronai, MD, MSEd	None
George Taylor, MD	None
Douglas Mah, MD	None
Nancy Braudis, RN, MS, CPNP	None
Lisa McCabe, RN, MS, CCRN	None
Michael Freed, MD	None
David Bailly, DO, BS, AA	None
Mjaye Mazwi, MD	None
Christina VanderPluym, MD	Merck – Scientific oversight committee for Veriguciat clinical trial
Emmanuel Rusingiza, MD	None
Thomas Kulik, MD	None
Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc	None
Sara Drumm, RN, CCRN	None