STEMI Watch Volume 2: Diagnosis and Beyond - PDF Download

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Approximately 250,000 people suffer from ST-elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMI) each year. Make sure you’re prepared to properly diagnose and treat your patients with STEMI Watch Volume 2: Diagnosis and Beyond. This internet-based course is designed to improve the consistency of cardiac care for STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) patients. It is presented in four online modules that can be taken independently, each providing 2.5 hours of STEMI CME/CE credit. STEMI Watch Volume 2 is also provided in a concise PDF format for easy offline learning.

STEMI Watch Volume 2: Diagnosis and Beyond provides clinically relevant articles to help healthcare providers eliminate the obstacles that prevent STEMI patients from accessing and receiving appropriate treatments. Articles discuss STEMI diagnosis, emergency management, in-hospital treatment, complications, post-hospital management, STEMI mimics, and aortic dissection.

In addition, STEMI Watch Volume 2 provides 10 hours of CME/CE credits to meet the Mission: Lifeline Accreditation for STEMI continuing education requirements.

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Features:

• Articles written by leading experts in cardiology and cardiovascular care;
• Includes valuable ECG interpretations;
• Concise targeted articles that summarize the latest research and provide clinically relevant recommendations to improve patient care;
• Delivers unbiased, clinically relevant information on the latest guidelines and protocols for treating STEMI patients.

Benefits include:

• Improve the consistency of cardiac care for STEMI patients;
• Includes valuable tables, figures, charts, photographs and images to support the information;
• Provides proven strategies to eliminate obstacles that prevent STEMI patients from accessing and receiving appropriate treatments;
• Module-based learning and CME/CE testing;
• Concise PDF format for convenient offline learning;
• Offers 10 hours of CME/CE credits to meet the Mission: Lifeline Accreditation for STEMI continuing education requirements;
• Promotes best practices for treating STEMI patients in the hospital, reducing complications, and preventing recurrence after discharge.

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Table of Contents

Module 1: Diagnosis
Module 2: Treatment
Module 3: STEMI Mimics
Module 4: Aortic Dissection

Expiration: March 31, 2020

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Faculty:

Physician Editor:
Michael H. Crawford, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Clinical Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco

Physician Peer Reviewer:
Susan Zhao, MD
Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory; Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA

Nurse Planner:
Aurelia Macabasco-O’Connell, PhD, ACNP-BC, RN, PHN, FAHA
Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing, Azusa, CA

Objectives:

The objectives of STEMI Watch Volume 2 are to:

• Discuss current scientific research and data regarding the diagnosis of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
• Discuss the pathogenesis and treatment of STEMI.
• Cite new information regarding new drugs for STEMI and new uses for traditional drugs.
• Discuss advance in STEMI treatment.
• Identify ancillary issues of importance for healthcare providers who treat STEMI patients.

Target Audience:

Cardiologists, coronary care nurses and staff, emergency medicine physicians and nurses, emergency medical service providers, ECG staff, percutaneous coronary intervention center staff, freestanding emergency department staff.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Relias Learning, LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP13791, for 10 Contact Hours.

Credit Designation:

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity has been approved for 10 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Expiration: March 31, 2020

Instructions for Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.

ISBN. 978-1-947481-35-6

Product Code. E17249