Landmark Practice Advances in Acute Blood Pressure Management WebCAST

WebCAST CME Disclosure

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Release Date:

December 15, 2008

Expiration Date:

December 15, 2010

Intended Audience:

• Emergency medicine specialists
• Emergency medicine physicians-in-training
• Emergency medicine fellows
• Emergency medicine nurse
• Nurse practitioners (NPs) with EM concentration
• Emergency medicine investiga tors and clinical scholars
• Emergency medicine program directors
• Emergency medicine residency program di rectors
• Physician assistants (PAs) with emergency medicine focus
• Emergency medicine technicians (EMTs) and paramedics at all levels
• Prehospital care providers
• Cardiologists and cardiovascular specialists
• Critical care physicians and intensivists

Registration:

Enrollment for this WebCAST is complimentary, and clinicians are invited to participate in this CME-certified WebCAST 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.

Accreditation Statement:

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, Office of CME 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 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Policy on Faculty & 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:

Charles V. Pollack Jr, MA, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Grant/Research Support: GSK, sanofi-aventis
Consultant: sanofi-aventis, Schering-Plough, The Medicines Company
Speaker’s Bureau: sanofi-aventis, Schering-Plough

Richard L. Summers, MD
Speaker's Bureaus: Schering Plough, Medicines Co., BMS, sanofi-aventis, Scios

Kurt C. Kleinschmidt, MD, FACEP
Speaker’s Bureau: sanofi-aventis, BMS
Consultant: The Medicines Company
Research Support: The Medicines Company

Program Faculty:

Program Chairman
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

Kurt C. Kleinschmidt, MD, FACEP
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Richard L. Summers, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Mississippi Medical School
Jackson, Mississippi

Educational Objectives:

Participants in this CME-certified WebCAST will:

• Learn to identify underlying chronic and acute precipitants of acute elevations in systemic blood pressure and how these syndromes presents across multiple disease states and patient populations.
• Learn to assess and implement optimal pharmacologic interventions for patients presenting with manifestations of acute pressure syndromes, including elevated systolic or diastolic blood pressure, end organ dysfunction, and other cardiovas cular, renovascular, and/or neurovascular derangements.
  
• Learn to characterize, identify, and evaluate myriad, acute disease states produc ing serious and/or life-threatening elevations in systemic blood pressure, among them: hypertensive urgency, hypertensive crisis, ischemic stroke, drug-induced acute pressure syndromes, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, pulmonary edema, and related conditions.
• Learn to understand the specific advantages and potential disadvantages of cur rently available intravenously administered pharmacologic agents used to reduce acute, serious, and/or life-threatening elevations in systemic blood pressure.
  
  

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