Cleveland Clinic 22nd Valve Disease, Structural Interventions and Diastology Summit

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Key Features

16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Meets Echo Lab CME Requirements for MDs and Sonographers! Accredited for 16.75 ABIM MOC points!

Topics Covered

  • TAVR
  • percutaneous mitral repair
  • valve-in-valve procedures
  • LAA occluder devices
  • strain imaging
  • fusion imaging
  • 3-D echo
  • contrast echo
  • CT/MR
  • artificial intelligence
  • new guidelines

Learning Objectives

Following this enduring material, the participants will be able to:

  • Apply echocardiography to diagnose the severity, mechanism, etiology, and hemodynamic impact of the many types of valve disease, including mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation and tricuspid valve disorders.
  • Assess the most recent innovations in structural interventions and describe their clinical use.
  • Translate new guideline criteria on imaging into current decision-making regarding structural and valve interventions, medical treatment and surgical valve repair/replacement.
  • Utilize echocardiographic imaging for imaging before, during, and after interventional procedures, closure of periprosthetic leaks, valve-in-valve repair, LAA closure and tricuspid repair.
  • Discuss multimodality imaging techniques, including 3-D echocardiography, fusion imaging, strain imaging, MRI/CT as well as contrast echo.
  • Describe clinical methods to diagnose diastolic dysfunction and manage disorders such as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, cardiac amyloidosis, complicated pericarditis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
  • Discuss role of clinical indications and emerging uses of contrast echocardiography.
  • Review what artificial intelligence is and how to use in clinical practice.

Target Audience

Noninvasive and invasive cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, sonographers, nurses, fellows, cardiology nurse practitioners, and physician assistants will benefit from this Summit.

Additional credit info

Release Date: 5/15/20

CME Expiration: 5/14/22

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 16.75 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 credit.

Your credit will be reported to the ABIM within 30 days of claiming credit.

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