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.

Get the Latest Vaccination Update Watching Webcast

Get the Latest Vaccination Update Watching Webcast. In many practices, physicians spend more time educating patients about what vaccinations are and what the truth about their risks and benefits are then time actually spent doing the injection.  On this CME Webcast, we’re going to give you the straight talk about vaccinations. We’ll discuss who needs them, what they do, and what they don’t do.  In the studio with our moderator Jim Allen, we’re pleased to welcome back to the program Professor of Family Medicine and the occasional stand-in moderator for MedNet, Dr. John McConaghy. Also joining us is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine from Ohio State University, Dr. William Buoni.

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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 updated vaccine recommendations; RECOMMEND strategies to increase vaccination rates in practice; UNDERSTAND the Affordable Care Act’s effect on immunization services; and DISCUSS proper use of the Center for Disease Control annual immunization recommendation materials.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Common reasons given for declining vaccinations
• How to code and bill for vaccines in office practice
• Whether getting the flu from a flu shot is a concern
• Influenza vaccine and pregnancy
• Vaccines that we don’t stock in our offices
• Giving a flu shot and a pneumonia shot at the same time

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.