2025 Heart & Vascular Symposium Enduring Material

Release Date: June 1, 2025

Expiration Date: December 31, 2025

(Please note that credit will no longer be issued for this activity after this date)

Media Type: Internet Enduring Material Activity

Completion Time: 8 hours

Registration Fee: FREE

Target Audience:

This symposium is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, family practitioners, family practice residents, medial students, nurses, EMS and all other allied health care professionals caring for cardiovascular patients

Agenda

1. 00:00:00 – Chase Reynolds, MD – Introduction
2. 00:03:44 – Joseph Souza, MD, FACC, FHRS – Ablation as First Line Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Are We There Yet?
3. 01:07:42 – John Gurley, MD, FACC, FACP – ECMO and Advanced Cardiovascular Support
4. 02:09:57 – Joseph Choo, MD, FACC – Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Intervention: The Future is Now
5. 03:01:45 – Brian Asbill, MD – Lifestyle RX for the Prevention (and Reversal?) of CVD
6. 04:11:01 – Robert Lewis, MD, PhD, MBA – Pacemaker & ICD Infection Management & Pre-Procedure Planning
7. 05:09:04 – Vibha Amblihalli MD, MPH – Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Role in Early & Precise Diagnosis
8. 05:56:23 – Fadi Al Akhrass, MD, MBA, FACP – Infective Endocarditis & Implantable Cardiovascular Device Infections
9. 06:55:04 – Dermot Halpin, MD, FACS – Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this program, the participants will be able to:

• Review the basic pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation
• Review current data regarding ablation and antiarrhythmic drugs
• Review current atrial fibrillation guidelines
• Assess the basic physiology of cardiogenic shock
• Review how mechanical circulatory support can be utilized to reverse shock physiology
• Define how an understanding of physiology allows clinicians to select the best device for the patient
• Discuss the scope of disease and current management of TR
• Review the commercially available options for transcatheter management of severe TR- including transcatheter edge to edge repair and transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement and appropriate patients for the respective therapies
• Review the evidence supporting a more plant forward diet as optimal for prevention and potential reverse of CVD
• Interpret and become familiar with data supporting CVD reversal from the work that have been published by Drs. Esselstyn and Ornish
• Know what lifestyle medicine is and how it is useful in both the primary and secondary prevention of chronic disease including CVD
• Recognize key steps that prevent pacemaker and ICD infection
• Review why early intervention for suspected infection saves lives
• Review coronary calcium scoring for primary prevention
• Assess CT coronary angiogram for chest pain evaluation
• Discuss cardiac MRI for myocardial evaluation
• Identify the key clinical features, diagnostic criteria and management of infectious endocarditis
• Identify recent advances in prevention, diagnosis, and management, and how they may be incorporated in the complex care of patients with Cardiovascular implantable electronic device infection
• Review indicators for minimally invasive cardiac surgery
• Assess the benefits of minimally invasive cardiac surgery
• Identify the risks of minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Instructions for Participation and Credit:

To receive credit you are required to:

• Review video content
• Score at least 80% on the required post-test to assess the knowledge gained from reviewing the video
• Submit the CME/CE link.

After completion of the activity, a certificate will be sent to you via your preferred retrieval method. If you have questions about the participation process, please e-mail CME@pikevillehospital.org or call 606-430-8110.

Accreditation Statement

Physicians

Pikeville Medical Center is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Pikeville Medical Center designates this internet enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

Pikeville Medical Center is approved by the Kentucky Board of Nursing as a continuing medical education provider and will award 8 nursing contact hours for this program.

KBN provider number 4-0042-12-26-0011. “Kentucky Board of Nursing approval of an individual nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content.”

Disclaimer

The opinions and recommendations expressed by faculty and other experts, whose input is included in this activity, are their own and do not represent Pikeville Medical Center endorsement. Please review the complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combinations of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings and adverse effects before administering pharmacological therapy to patients.

Special Needs Statement

If you have special needs, please contact our office and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
It is the policy of Pikeville Medical Center to adhere to ACCME Criteria, Policies, and Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education in order to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its accredited activities. All faculty and planners, along with the Activity Director and Co-Director, participating in accredited activities are expected to disclose relevant financial relationships pertaining to their contribution to the activity. Relationship information is analyzed to determine whether conflicts of interest exist. All conflicts of interest are mitigated prior to participation in the planning or implementation of this activity.

Faculty members are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States. All disclosures will be made at the time of this accredited continuing education activity:

Course Faculty:              Name of Ineligible Company(s)       Nature of Relevant Financial Relationship(s) 

The following Course Faculty and Planning Committee have reported having no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible company related to the content of this educational activity.

Course Faculty:

John Gurley, MD, FACC, FHRS

Brian Asbill, MD

Vibha Amblihalli, MD, MPH

Dermot Halpin, MD, FACS

Planning Committee:

Brenda Adams, CCMEC, Director Continuing Medical Education

Amy Tibbs, Medical Education Coordinator

Keylee Coleman, RN Staff Development Specialist

Jamessa Scott, APRN Cardiac Stress Lab Coumadin Clinic Cardiac Accreditation Certification Outcomes

Melissa Gunter, RN Practice Manager

Commercial Support: 

There is no commercial support associated with this activity.