Webinars

Diagnosing and Managing Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Live Webinar Date: August 25, 2022

Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CDT

Advance your clinical knowledge and refine assessment skills as experts in PAD provide guidance on obtaining a detailed history and what to look for during the physical exam to prioritize diagnostic testing strategy. Hear a patient’s personal experience getting diagnosed with PAD to highlight areas for shared decision making to manage risk factors and minimize long term morbidity.

Equity and Peripheral Artery Disease: How Do We Change the Tide

Improved awareness of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) symptoms, risk factors and complications are imperative to avoid missed diagnosis and underused treatment for PAD. Join this live webinar and learn the important racial, gender, socioeconomic, and geographical disparities in PAD. Help your patients understand the risk factors, signs and symptoms and treatments for PAD.

 

Rhythm vs. Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation: When and Why

Do you know the benefits of rhythm control vs. rate control in your AF patients? Join this webinar and learn to apply the evidence as experts use case studies of patient scenarios to discuss both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies to achieve normal sinus rhythm. Treatment considerations for AF and heart failure will also be discussed. 

CE and MOC Credits Available. Approved for 1.0 AAFP Prescribed Credit.

Vascular Cognitive Impairment

Futuristic digital drawing of a transparent human head, showing location of some blood vessels and brain. This online course provides the most current and comprehensive scope of knowledge in the early assessment and management of vascular cognitive impairment. The presentations from experts in the field will challenge and expand on contemporary patient care across the age continuum.

Best Practices in the Care of Cryptogenic Stroke Patients: Review of the 2021 Clinical Guideline

While a precise percentage of cryptogenic strokes is unknown, approximately 35% of strokes are thought to be cryptogenic. This suggests nearly 240,000 strokes annually for which no clear etiology can be distinguished. Experts concur the embolic insult in cryptogenic stroke may be due to subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF). It is estimated about 15% of ischemic strokes are caused by AF and that there is an elevated risk of secondary ischemic stroke due to AF.

This 3-part educational webinar series on cryptogenic stroke focuses on the 2021 Guideline for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack.

CE credit available
Supported by an Education Grant by Medtronic

Empowering Your Patients to Understand ATTR-CM

In this first of a 3-part series, watch Nancy M. Albert and Katherine E. Di Palo join moderator Kevin Alexander in discussing ways to empower patients to recognize ATTR-CM and share in decision-making about diagnostic and treatment options. CE/ABIM MOC credit available. Approved for 1.0 AAFP Prescribed/Elective credits. Free webinar.

Shared Decision-Making and Hypertension Treatment

Presenters: Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, PhD, RN, ANP, FAHA; Giv Heidari-Bateni, MD
Moderator: Eunjoo An, PhD, RN

Shared decision-making has become a method to enhance patient involvement in health care decisions, patient-provider communication, and patient-centered care. When selecting the best hypertension management plan, your patients may have different goals and preferences for treatment. Adherence may be increased if the plan aligns with the patient’s preferences. In this webinar you will learn how to engage your patients and incorporate shared decision making into your practice. Barriers to implementing strategies will also be discussed.

Supported by an education grant from Medtronic.

Patient Care Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction: The First 90 Days

What variables predict readmission within 90 days of hospitalization for myocardial infarction? Does structural racism contribute to the inequities in healthcare delivery? Watch these webinars and learn:

Clinical Management of HCM: Medical, Invasive, and Advanced Therapies

Surgical and interventional options such as surgical myectomy or alcohol septal ablation may help those with obstructive HCM to reduce or remove the obstruction. A similar option is unavailable to those with non-obstructive HCM. Heart transplants are considered as a last resort for HCM patients who progress to end stages of the disease. Learn the latest in the clinical management of HCM in this free webinar.

Presenters: Anjali Tiku Owens, MD; Richard Bach, MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI
Moderator: James E. Udelson, MD, FAHA

Bristol Myers Squibb is a national sponsor of the American Heart Association’s hypertrophic cardiomyopathy initiative.

Guidelines and Statements

Access the knowledge you need right in your browser. Learn from experts who share practical applications and considerations in the latest statements and guidelines. Improved patient care starts with you. Start learning today.

Secondary Stroke Prevention: Evidence-based Recommendations
This webinar is highlights evidence-based clinical recommendations from the recently published 2021 Guideline for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack. Patients having had an ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack may experience improved outcomes and quality of life based on the prevention strategies for reducing subsequent stroke risk.

Ethics and Professionalism: A Common Ground of Understanding
A roundtable discussion on issues like shared clinical decision-making; the relationship of clinicians with patients, other clinicians, and organizations; allocation of resources; and scientific responsibility and integrity in research.

Key Implications for Clinicians in the 2020 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease
In your evaluation of patients with suspected valvular heart disease, learn the diagnostic strategies for early detection of valvular disease and long term management with appropriate tools for assessment and intervention.