Lifelong learning Managing heart failure? Learn the latest treatment options for this condition Free one-hour CME course will review clinical practice guidelines for novel therapies in heart failure. Oct. 1, 2019Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics CME Rehospitalization is not uncommon for the more than one million patients hospitalized annually with a primary diagnosis of heart failure. At least half of patients are readmitted within 6 months of discharge; heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization among adults over 65 years old in the U.S. A new, free online CME course from the AOA and Impact Education walks physicians through the latest pharmacologic and patient care considerations for managing heart failure. The CME is approved for one AOA Category 1-B credit. Opportunities for physicians Physicians who treat patients with heart failure have the opportunity to reduce health care spending and improve outcomes by employing cutting-edge therapies to reduce hospital readmissions in heart failure patients. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming more than 647,000 lives annually, according to the CDC. Although it is not always identified as the definitive cause when someone dies from CVD, heart failure is often cited as an underlying cause of CVD deaths. Recent trials covered Presenters Carman A. Ciervo, DO, the chief physician executive at Jefferson Health, and Akshay S. Desai, MD, MPH, director of the heart failure disease management program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will review clinical practice guidelines for novel therapies in heart failure, including results from recent trials and evidence supporting averted heart failure-related hospitalizations and/or deaths. They will also outline clinical scenarios for the appropriate prescribing of emerging heart failure therapies. Complete this free CME course here. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleA heart transplant, an Instagram influencer, an eSports team doc, a mom on a mission: 4 OMED talks Next articleIn Memoriam: Oct. 1, 2019
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