Understand Resistant Hypertension with On-line Education

Understand Resistant Hypertension with On-line Education. On this MedNet21 CME Webcast, we’re going to hear more about resistant hypertension: what some of the causes are, what the pharmacologic approach is, and how a new endovascular procedure might hold the promise of improved blood pressure control for these patients in the future.  Let me welcome today’s guests in the studio with Dr. Jim Allen.  First, we have from the Division of Nephrology, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Dr. Christopher Valentine. Joining him from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and the Medical Director of the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital at the Wexner Medical Center, Dr. Ernest Mazzaferri.

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What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: REVIEW secondary causes of hypertension; Discuss therapy of resistant hypertension; and RECOGNIZE the Role of Sympathetic N.S. in HTN.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Epidemiology of resistant hypertension
• Consequences of inadequately treated hypertension
• The future of catheter-based renal denervation
• Patient selection for renal denervation
• An On-line Webcast about Secondary Causes of Hypertension
• Lab testing of patients with resistant hypertension

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

CME Webcast Explores Heart Failure

CME Webcast Explores Heart Failure. In this MedNet21 CME Webcast, we’re going to update you on the use of several different classes of medications as well as cardiac interventions in heart failure. Here with our moderator, Dr. Jim Allen, for today’s installment of on-line education is Professor and director of the division of cardiovascular medicine at Ohio State, Dr. William Abraham.

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What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DESCRIBE several options for the management of Heart Failure; RECOMMEND appropriate medications for the management of Heart Failure; UNDERSTAND the revised staging system for heart failure and APPLY evidence-based guidelines for heart failure management.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Epidemiology of heart failure
• Initial testing in suspected heart failure
• Reducing 30-day readmissions for heart failure
• Questions you should ask patients with CHF every visit

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.