Cardiovascular Emergencies

New Dimensions and Critical Practice Advances
National Congress
Seatte, WA

Webcast CME Disclosure

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Intended Audience:

This symposium is designed for emergency medicine specialists, emergency medicine fellows, emergency medicine nurses, nurse practitioners (NPs) with EM concentration, physician assistants (PAs) with emergency medicine focus, prehospital care providers, cardiologists and cardiovascular specialists, critical care physicians and intensivists

Registration:

Enrollment for this webcast is complimentary, and clinicians are invited to attend this CME-certified symposium and/or share this invitation with other colleagues, departmental staff members, and healthcare professionals.

Grantor Support:

Supported by an independent educational grant from The Medicines Company, Inc.

Accreditation Statement for Jointly-Sponsored Programs:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The University of Massachusetts Medical School and CMEducation Resources, LLC. The University of Massachusetts Medical School is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement:

The University of Massachusetts Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Policy on Faculty and Provider Disclosure:

It is the policy of the University of Massachusetts Medical School to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all activities. All faculty participating in CME activities sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Medical School are required to present evidence-based data, identify and reference off-label product use and disclose all relevant financial relationships with those supporting the activity or others whose products or services are discussed. Faculty disclosure will be provided in the activity materials.

Faculty Disclosures:

Judd E. Hollander, MD
Grant/Research Support: Sanofi-Aventis, Biosite, Scios, The Medicines Company
Consultant: Sanofi-Aventis, Biosite, Scios, The Medicines Company
Speaker’s Bureau: Sanofi-Aventis, Biosite, Scios, The Medicines Company

Sunil Rao, MD, FACC
Grant/Research Support: Cordis
Consultant: Sanofi-Aventis, The Medicines Company
Speaker’s Bureau: Sanofi-Aventis, The Medicines Company, Cordis

Charles V. Pollack, MD, FACEP
Grant/Research Support: GlaxoSmithKline
Consultant: The Medicines Co., Schering-Plough, Sanofi-Aventis, BMS, Genentech
Speaker’s Bureau: Schering-Plough, Sanofi-Aventis, BMS, Genentech

Program Faculty:

Judd E. Hollander, MD
Professor and Clinical Research Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sunil Rao, MD, FACC
Director of Interventional Cardiology
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Charles V. Pollack Jr, MA, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Pennsylvania Hospital
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Educational Objectives:

• Learn to identify signs, symptoms, and prog nostic features of acute coronary syndrome and related cardiovascular emergencies.
• Learn to assess and implement optimal pharma cologic interventions, especially antithrombotic therapy in the upstream setting, for patients presenting with manifestations of ACS and related cardiovascular disease emergencies.
• Learn to characterize, identify, and evaluate the safety, efficacy, and side effects of myriad therapeutic options used for acute ischemic coronary syndromes including, aspirin, antiplatelet agents, direct thrombin inhibitors, UFH, LMWHs, and factor Xa inhibitors.
• Learn to understand the specific advantages and potential disadvan tages of currently pharmacologic agents used to reduce ischemic and bleeding end points in the setting of cardiovascular emergencies.
• Learn to identify the ideal properties of antithrombotic agents used to provide emergency- and cardiology-based care for ACS patients.
• Learn to discuss and assess the impact that new trials and AHA/ACC Guidelines are likely to have on future management of patients with cardiovascular emergencies, including ACS.
• As a result of this session, ED physicians will learn to apply national guidelines and expert, consensus-based recommendations in order to optimize emergency-based therapy of patients with ACS..

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