Internal Medicine Meeting Recordings
Expert clinician educators will provide a focused update of the diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic approaches to the patient at risk for, or with known, cardiovascular disease. Faculty will focus on the cardiovascular disease issues that internal medicine physicians most frequently encounter and will provide “key points” to update the audience and foster patient care.
This high-yield collection of virtual lectures will cover:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the patient with known cardiovascular disease.
- The guidelines and recent studies regarding hypertension, valvular heart disease, optimal blood pressure control, and care of the patient with cardiovascular disease who undergoes noncardiac surgery.
- Approaches for decreasing the risk for complications and decreasing hospital readmissions for patients with a variety of cardiovascular issues.
- Optimal surgical/invasive and pharmacologic treatments for the care of patients with coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and atrial fibrillation.
- The transition of care following hospital discharge for patients with a variety of cardiac issues.
- The role of technologic advances in cardiac care that the internal medicine specialist may use in patient care: electrocardiography, echocardiography, cardiac CT imaging, cardiac MRI, cardiac PET scan, wearable cardiac rhythm monitoring devices, and lab testing.
- The latest guideline-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease.
Course Directors
Howard Weitz, MD, FRCP (Lond.), FACC, MACP
Bernard L. Segal Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Senior Associate Dean, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
David L. Fischman, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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