Introduction to Pediatric Cardiac Disease: Cardiology Assessment (1.25 hrs.)

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This course reviews the basic approach to diagnosis and treating children with congenital heart disease. Highlights of this course 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.
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This course reviews the exams used to diagnose and treat children with congenital heart disease: cardiac history exam, pediatric chest radiography, including the evaluation of chest radiographs in children with known or suspected heart disease, and ECG.
  Learning Objectives:  At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:
  1. To understand the clinical history relevant to heart disease
  2. Recognize features of the clinical exam in heart disease
  3. Understand auscultation and characterization of cardiac murmurs
  4. Recognize features of pathologic versus benign murmurs
  5. Discuss the interpretation of the pediatric chest X-Ray with a special focus on how children differ from adults.
    Identify the components that make up the systematic approach to the evaluation of the pediatric chest X-Ray
  7. Explain the systematic approach to evaluation of the chest x-ray in children
  8. Evaluate features of the heart, lung vasculature, and airway
  9. Recognize features of bony abnormalities and situs of the chest and abdomen
  10. Describe the cycle of the cardiac electrical conduction system
  11. Identify proper ECG lead placement and positioning
  12. Calculate the Heart Rate, determine the Rhythm, the Axis, and identify proper ECG intervals
  13. Identify and distinguish between the three types of heart block
Faraz Alizadeh, MD – Course Director

Pediatric Cardiology Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

 

christina ronai headshotChristina Ronai, MD, MSEd – Speaker

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

 



George Taylor headshotGeorge Taylor, MD – Speaker

Staff Radiologist Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

Douglas Mah headshot

Douglas Mah, MD – Speaker

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

 

 

 

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.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 1.25 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

  Disclosure Policy 
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 CE 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.
Disclosure Statement

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: 

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Course Directors
Faraz Alizadeh, MD
None
Authors
Christina Ronai, MD, MSEd
None
George Taylor, MD
None
Douglas Mah, MD
None
Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc
None
Sara Drumm, RN, CCRN
None

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