Introduction to Pediatric Cardiac Disease: Congenital Heart Disease
Course Credit
The following credits are available for this course:
| AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (MD, DO, NP, PA) | 2.75 hours |
| Contact Hours (Nurse) | 2.75 hours |
(Note: a course evaluation is required to receive credit for this course.)
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Faraz Alizadeh, MD – Course Director
Pediatric Cardiology Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital
Michael Freed, MD – Speaker
Senior Associate in Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Thomas Kulik, MD – Speaker
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
David Bailly, DO, BS, AA – Speaker
Attending Physician, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Primary Children’s Hospital
Instructor, Pediatric Critical Care Division, University of Utah
Mjaye Mazwi, MD – Speaker
Attending Physician, Cardiology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Assistant Professor in Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
This course reviews the basic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of children with congenital heart disease. Highlights of this course include clinical presentation and pathophysiology of various congenital heart diseases, such as murmurs, arrythmias, and cyanosis in the first week of life. It also covers presentation, physiology, and treatment of various cardiac defects, including cyanotic congenital cardiac defects, atrial and ventricular septal defects, and Tetralogy of Fallot.
Learning Objectives:
Description: This video reviews the presentation of congenital heart disease in the first week of life and focuses on the identification of common neonatal murmurs that are associated with congenital heart disease. At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to: Description: Introduction to common newborn arrhythmias. At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to: Description: Overview on how cyanotic congenital heart disease presents in the first week of life. At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to: Description: Review the physiology of cyanotic congenital cardiac defects. At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to: Description: Learn basic anatomy, pathophysiology, and approach to diagnosis/management of atrial septal defects (ASDs). At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to: Description: Learn basic anatomy, pathophysiology, and approach to diagnosis/management of ventricular septal defects (VSDs).. At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to: Description: Brief overview of anatomy and physiology of Tetralogy of Fallot. At the conclusion of this educational module, learners will be able to:Clinical Presentation of Congenital Heart Disease in the First Week of Life: Murmurs
Clinical Presentation of Congenital Heart Disease in the First Week of Life: Arrythmias
Clinical Presentation of Congenital Heart Disease in the First Week of Life: Cyanosis
Cyanotic Congenital Cardiac Defects: Physiology of Cyanosis
Atrial Septal Defects
Ventricular Septal Defects
Tetralogy of Fallot
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 2.75 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 2.75 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 |
| Michael Freed, MD | None |
| David Bailly, DO, BS, AA | None |
| Thomas Kulik, MD | None |
| Mjaye Mazwi, MD | None |
| Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc | None |
| Sara Drumm, RN, CCRN | None |
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