Description

Faraz Alizadeh, MD – Course Director

Pediatric Cardiology Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

Emmanuel Kamanzi Rusingiza, MD – Speaker

Overview

This course offers a comprehensive overview of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD), reviewing their epidemiology, causes, treatment, and prevention strategies. Participants will gain insights into the incidence and distribution of these conditions, explore the underlying risk factors, and review current treatment options.

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. Identify risk factors that predispose to ARF.
2. Describe signs and symptoms associated with ARF.
3. Become familiar with diagnostic criteria, medical evaluation and treatment of ARF.
4. Identify key aspects of long-term management and prophylaxis for recurrent ARF.
5. Identify major complications and longterm management of patients with RHD.
6. Describe the pathophysiology leading to development of RHD.
7. Identify signs and symptoms associated with RHD.
8. Describe physical exam findings associated with RHD.
9. Review medical evaluation and treatment of RHD.

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 0.75 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 0.75 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:

Speaker Name, Degree	Disclosure
Faraz Alizadeh, MD	None
Emmanuel Kamanzi Rusingiza, MD	None
Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc	None
Sara Drumm, RN, CCRN	None