Teaching and Learning Slide Sets

Update in ACS
This slide set is from the lecture presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2007 Annual Meeting by David Hillis, MD, Vice-Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, James M. Wooten Chair in Cardiology and Director of Clinical Cardiology in the Division of Cardiology. This slide set provides information on: ST Segment Elevation MI, Non-ST Segment Elevation MI, and Unstable Angina: Pathophysiology, Recognition and Therapy (minutes-hours, hours-days and days-weeks-months-years).
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Listen to the Update in ACS Podcast.

Cardiac Controversies: Acute Coronary Syndromes, Heart Failure & More
This slide set is from the lecture presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2006 Annual Meeting by Matthew Sorrentino, MD, FACC, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Cardiology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. This slide set reviews trials and guidelines in the management of patients admitted to the hospital with cardiac conditions including ACS and ADHF. Focus is made on the timely addition of preventative modalities to reduce cardiovascular risk and prevent hospital re-admission.
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Strategies and Therapies for Reducing Ischemic and Vascular Events (STRIVE™)
STRIVE™ is a comprehensive medical education initiative with the goal of optimizing the management of cardiovascular disease and peripheral arterial disease. A wealth of resources is available on the STRIVE™ website including several PowerPoint presentations from past teleconferences.
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CHAMP (Curriculum for the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient): The Ideal Hospital Discharge
The objectives of this slide set by Catherine E. DuBeau, MD, University of Chicago, are to: appreciate the impact of discharge quality and outcome on older patients, their caregivers, and all of the physicians who care for them, identify the components of an ideal discharge, implement effective discharge planning throughout the course of a hospital stay including: Lead team in multidisciplinary collaboration and communicate early with older patients and their families.

This slide set and other information on the CHAMP project can be found on the POGOe website in the Models of Care Hospital Care Section. Login is required.
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Improving the Discharge Process: Practical Lessons for Practical Clinicians
This slide set is from the lecture presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2007 Annual Meeting by Jeff Greenwald, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Mark Williams, MD, Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. The objectives of this slide set are to: Identify some of the key literature important to the discharge process, describe the new NQF Safe Practice on discharge and SHM discharge checklist, and analyze areas where improvement in discharge processes may be made at your home institutions and recognize where to begin that change process.
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Discharge Transitions
This slide set is from the lecture presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2006 Annual Meeting by Adrienne Green, MD, Jeff Greenwald, MD, Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD and Eric Howell, MD. This slide set covers critical issues in improving the discharge transition and uses several case study examples to improve discharge.
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