CME/CE

CME

Team Communications for the Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Heart Failure
This CME activity is intended for clinicians caring for patients with heart failure (HF) across the care continuum. They may include hospitalists, cardiologists, other physician specialists, and nonphysician clinicians such as advance practice nurses who are involved in the treatment and management of patients with advanced HF.
On completion of this offering, participants will be able to:

• Identify three communication issues related to heart failure (HF) management.
• Define strategies to improve communication within the team and with the patient and the family.
• List three areas of self-management that must be reviewed with the patient prior to discharge from hospital.

This case is worth 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ & 1 nursing contact hours.
View the Team Communications CME/CNE Module

Palliative Care for Patients With Heart Failure
This CME activity is intended for clinicians caring for patients with heart failure (HF) across the care continuum. They may include hospitalists, cardiologists, other physician specialists, and nonphysician clinicians such as advance practice nurses who are involved in the treatment and management of patients with advanced HF who may benefit from palliative care.
On completion of this offering, participants will be able to:

• Recognize that a broad spectrum of patients with HF can benefit from palliative care.
• Describe effective dyspnea management, as well as pain and symptom control, for patients with HF.
• Recognize the value of implementing early discharge plans, communication with outpatient clinicians, and the importance of coordination of palliative care during care transition.
• Describe hospice criteria for patients with HF and recognize the importance of ascertaining patients’ goals when developing a treatment plan.

The case is worth 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
View the Palliative Care for Patients with Heart Failure Module

Optimizing the Heart Failure Discharge Transition
This CME activity is intended for hospitalists, cardiologists, primary care providers, other physicians, and non-physician clinicians such as advance practice nurses specializing in the management of patients with heart failure.
Upon completion of this educational offering, participants will be able to:

• Employ a multidisciplinary approach to the care of patients with heart failure that begins at hospital admission and continues through all care transitions.
• Accurately and effectively reconcile medications across the care continuum.
• Recognize the value of initiating discharge planning early in the course of the hospitalization, including communication with outpatient clinicians.
• Recognize the importance of post-discharge follow-up.
• Effectively communicate with patients and families critical elements of successful self-management, especially in the post-discharge period.
• Identify specific issues that increase the risk of care transitions for patients with heart failure.
  

The case is worth 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
View the Optimizing the Heart Failure Discharge Transition Module

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Charting a New Course
Drs Ventura, Yancy, Califf, and Mehra discuss safety and efficacy data for ADHF therapies, including appropriate use based on patient characteristics. They also explain issues of trial design in ADHF and review rationale and background for planned studies.
View the ADHF CME Module at www.theheart.org (Login is Required).

Pharmacotherapy Primer
Perspectives in ADHF Management, Thresholds for Pharmacotherapy is pharmacotherapy primer and safety reference guide that summarizes each therapeutic drug category, its current indications and use in the management of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), proper dosage guidelines, and relevant safety, data including renal function and mortality.
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Perspectives on ADHF: A Panel Discussion - Video Program on www.theheart.org
Dr Kirkwood Adams, Program Director of the Perspectives on Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Steering Committee is joined by Dr Jim Young, chairman of the Division of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Dr W Frank Peacock, Vice Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in a panel discussion to explore important issues relevant to healthcare professionals involved in the day-to-day management of acute decompensated heart failure.
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The Pulse on ADHF - Video Interview Program on www.theheart.org
Dr Kirkwood Adams, Program Director of the Perspectives on Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Steering Committee, is joined by Dr Maria Rosa Costanzo, Medical Director of the Edward Center for Heart Failure at Midwest Heart Specialists; Dr W Frank Peacock, Vice Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; and Dr Eric Siegal, Director of the Hospital Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin Medical School; in this interview-based program. Each of these expert faculty offer their thoughts concerning ADHF management pathways for various ADHF patient types. Their opinions provide a solid foundation that is key to healthcare providers' treatment decisions in regard to these patients.
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The American Heart Association (AHA) Get with the Guidelines (GWTG) Heart Failure Recognition Program
This on-line course gives general overview of QI process and how to become one of the AHA Get with the Guidelines hospitals.
Learn more about the GWTG Recognition Program

Duke Clinical Medicine Series
A series of live and archived conferences on topics of heart failure management, new therapies and diagnostic strategies.
View the Duke Heart Failure Conference Series *Log-in is required

Medscape
Excellent CME content . Requires signing up for medscape. Free
http://www.medscape.com

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Today: Patient Characteristics and Practice Patterns
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/557961

Safety and Efficacy of Therapies for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/557963

Optimizing Outcomes With Pharmacologic Management in ADHF
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/555797

The Ohio State University Medical Center –Center for Continuing Medical Education
The Ohio State University Medical Center features HF clinical care modules including new therapies and management strategies. Log-in is required and a fee is associated with each module.
ccme.osu.edu

e-Medicine presented by WebMD-Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema
Presents in article format which can be printed and distributed an overview of HF types, diagnosis and management.
CME credit is available with e medicine registration. (First 1.5 hr is free, then $7.5/hr.)
www.emedicine.com

Primed
Pri-meds Heart Failure Center features case based CME Modules. Users will need to sign up to become member of Primed. No cost in signing up.
www.pri-med.com

Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Online CME Webcast
The Heart Failure Society of America’s5th Annual Heart Failure Society of America's Update for the Primary Care Physician Symposium held Saturday, February 11, 2006 in Houston, TX is available for viewing and earning CME credit online.  The symposium is divided into six sessions with CME credit available for each section.
View the HFSA Online Webscast

e-Medicine presented by WebMD Heart failure in children
Pediatric oriented CME. Presented in article format, CME credit is available with e-medicine registration. (First 1.5 hr is free, then $7.5/hr.)
www.emedicine.com

University of Michigan: Heart Failure Guideline – Systolic Dysfunction [2006 update]
www.cme.med.umich.edu/iCME/HeartFailure06/about.asp
Key points include:

• Confirm the etiology as systolic dysfunction.
• ACE inhibitors and beta blockers are underutilized and should be administered to appropriate patients.
• Aldosterone agonists improve mortality and should be considered for appropriate patients. 

[UMHS clinical guideline 9/06 update]
1 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™, for adult primary care clinicians, no fee CME credit will be available until Aug 2009
View the University of Michigan CME Module

Cleveland Clinic-Center for Continuing Education: Fluid Management in the Heart Failure Patient
This webcast featured on the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Continuing Education Website will provide 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ upon completion. The webcast is presented as a sequence of talks, upon completion of this activity you will be able to:

1. Discuss the fundamental physiology of arginine vasopressin (AVP) with particular reference to water control.
2. Describe the role of arginine vasopressin in the pathophysiology of disease with emphasis on congestive heart failure.
3. Recognize the Cardio-Renal Syndrome in heart failure - epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment.
4. Identify the potential role of blocking AVP receptors in edematous, hyponatremic states.

View the Cleveland Clinic’s Fluid Management in the Heart Failure Patient activity

CE

The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)
The AAHFN provides online Heart Failure CE options in the following areas:

Overview of Central Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure: Incidence, Prevalence and Treatment
View the Sleep Apnea in HF CE

Overview of Ventricular Assist Devices
View the Overview of Ventricular Assist Devices CE

Hospice and Palliative Care: When and Where to Deliver End-of-Life Care
View the Hospice & Palliative Care CE

Devices and Systolic Dysfunction: What's New?
View the Devices and Systolic Dysfunction CE

Sleep Disordered Breathing in Patients with Heart Failure
View the Sleep Disordered Breathing CE