Cardiovascular Medicine 2023: Updates for the Practitioner is a course dedicated to an intensive, comprehensive review of the most important changes in cardiovascular medicine.
Topics
- Advanced heart failure
- Atherosclerosis: inflammation and novel risk factors
- Coronary artery disease
- Diabetes and its increasing overlap with cardiovascular disease
- Cardiovascular imaging and stress testing
- Pulmonary embolism and DVT
- Valvular heart disease
- Genetics and its relevance to daily clinical practice
- Treating and managing advanced heart failure
- Taming immune and inflammatory responses to treat atherosclerosis
- Integrated multimodality cardiovascular imaging
- Atrial fibrillation as a systemic cardiovascular illness
- Late-breaking information regarding cardiovascular benefits and risks of antidiabetic drugs
- Pulmonary hypertension
- A comprehensive approach to managing atrial fibrillation, beyond rate and rhythm control
- State-of-the-art treatments and clinical practices for reducing stroke, heart attack, and cardiovascular death in patients with diabetes
- Combination anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy: new findings that impact the treatment of peripheral arterial disease
- Cardiovascular imaging tests: updates to select, use and act upon the results of CT, magnetic resonance, and nuclear imaging
- Best practices for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension with combination pharmacological therapy
- Guidance to determine whether to use single, dual, or even triple therapy for treatment of coronary artery disease
- New strategies to incorporate cardiovascular genetics into daily practice
- Education to navigate the differing nuances among the five FDA-approved direct oral anticoagulants
Who should Attend
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and Pharmacists in the following fields:
- Cardiology
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Interventional Cardiology
- Geriatrics
- Hospital Medicine
- Vascular Medicine
- Critical Care Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
