5C: Concepts in Contemporary Critical Care Cardiology
This CME course, offered by the The Corrigan Minehan Heart Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is designed to educate clinicians about current cardiac intensive care topics and give them the medical knowledge necessary to provide comprehensive, guideline-based and best-practice in care to modern cardiac intensive care patients.
Harvard Medical School and The Corrigan Minehan Heart Center at Massachusetts General Hospital are offering a novel CME course designed to educate clinicians about current cardiac intensive care topics—such as ECMO and mechanical circulatory support—giving clinicians the robust, evidence-based medical knowledge necessary to provide comprehensive, guideline-based and best-practice in care to modern cardiac intensive care patients.
This course lets you earn up to 8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, 8.75 ABIM MOC Points and 8.75 ABA MOCA Credits.
All sessions will be recorded and made available online for participants for 30 days after the end of the course.
Target Audience
This course is targeted to Specialty Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Nurses and Physician Assistants. This course may also be of interest to physicians who practice in Critical Care and Trauma, Emergency Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Anesthesiology, Hospital Medicine, Thoracic Surgery, Pharmacology and Cardiology and Vascular Medicine.
Fees
Physician (MD/DO): $149.00
Nurse (RN/APRN): $149.00
Resident / Fellow: $30.00
Allied Health Professional / Other: $149.00
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Compare available strategies for urgent univentricular and biventricular mechanical support
- Choose vasoactive medications based on an algorithmic approach to shock phenotypes
- Practice consensus-based selection criteria for choosing ECMO and mechanical circulatory support strategies
- Select strategies for the optimal care of the post-arrest patient
- Manage refractory hypoxemia with improved understanding of ventilator parameters and mechanics in cardiac patients, and acknowledge heart-lung interaction and impact on physiology and treatment
- Evaluate contributions of right ventricular dysfunction and ventricular interdependence in acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction
- Demonstrate appropriate systems-based practice in modern cardiac critical care by employing care bundles and evidence-based practice with nutrition and physical therapy
- Recognize signs and causes of delirium in critically ill patients and implement an appropriate neuropharmacologic treatment plan
Faculty
Massachusetts General Hospital
David Dudzinski, MD, JD
Intensive Care Cardiologist
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Associate Editor, Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Ivana Nikolic, MD
Cardiology Critical Care Physician
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Emily Zern, MD
Cardiology Fellow
Sunu S. Thomas, MD
Medical Director, Mass General Cardiac ECMO Program
Co-Director, Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics (ReACT) Program
Yvonne Lai, MD
Associate Program Director, Anesthesia Residency Program
Jona Ludmir, MD
Cardiologist and Critical Care Physician
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Michael G. Fitzsimons, MD
Cardiac Anesthesiologist
Division Chief, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Susan Wilcox, MD
Chief, Division of Critical Care
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Kathryn A. Hibbert, MD
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jerome Crowley, MD, MPH
Instructor in Anaesthesia
Critical Care Physician and Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia, Mass General
Michael G. Silverman, MD
Cardiologist, Cardiac Critical Care
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Van-Khue Ton, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Cardiologist, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Mass General
Richard N. Pierson III, MD
Cardiac Surgeon
Scientific Director, Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS)
Senior Investigator/Head, Pierson Laboratory
Evin Yucel, MD
Clinical Cardiologist and Echocardiographer, Division of Cardiology
Rajeev Malhotra, MD, MS
Cardiologist, Cardiovascular Research Center
Jahan Mohebali, MD, MPH
Vascular Surgeon, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Assistant Program Director, Department of Surgery’s Residency Program
Lisa M. Bebell, MD
Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Man Piu (Mark) Wong, MD
Associate Program Director, Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship Program
Instructor in Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Shelton, MD
Critical Care Physician and Anesthesiologist
Medical Director and Lead Intensivist, Heart Center ICU
Asishana Osho, MD
Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiac Surgery
Health Services Researcher, Harvard Medical School
Adil A. Yunis, MD
Clinical Fellow, Division of Cardiology
Jennifer Cottral, MD
Cardiac Intensivist and Anesthesiologist
Kelly Tankard, MD
Fellow, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Moriah Jacobellis, NP
Critical Care Nurse Practitioner
Aaron Aguirre, MD, PhD
Cardiologist and Critical Care Physician
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Aranya Bagchi, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Guest Faculty
Sadeq Quraishi, MD, MHA, MMSc
Director, Tufts Anesthesia Research Center, Tufts Medical Center
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Physicians
The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 8.75 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC points.
American Board of Anesthesiology's (ABA)
This activity contributes to the CME requirement for the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM program (MOCA®), known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements. Maximum of 8.75 credits.
Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses
For the purpose of recertification, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board and American Nurses Credentialing Center accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education). We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
Physician Assistants
The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification. We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
Canadian Accreditation
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.
European Accreditation
Through an agreement between the American Medical Association and the European Union of Medical Specialists, physicians may convert AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to an equivalent number of European CME Credits® (ECMEC®s). Information on the process of converting AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to ECMEC®s can be found at: www.eaccme.eu.
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
This course is designed to meet the following American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)/ Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Educational (ACGME) competencies:
- Patient Care and Procedural Skills
- Medical Knowledge
- Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
IOM Competencies
This course is designed to meet the following Institute of Medicine (IOM) Competencies:
- Work in Interdisciplinary Teams
- Employ Evidence-Based Practice
- Apply Quality Improvement
