Disease Management Clinical Decisions
Congestive Heart Failure
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Renewal Date: July 25, 2011
Expiration Date: July 25, 2012
Estimated Time of Completion: 15 minutes
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Description
Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you
to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.
Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have an opportunity to print your CME certificate for your records.
Learning Objectives
- Classify heart failure stage (ACC/AHA Stage A/B/C/D).
- Identify key diagnostic tests for confirming the diagnosis of heart failure.
- Identify risk factors for mortality in heart failure patients.
- Discuss contemporary medical management of systolic heart failure.
- Discuss strategies for reducing readmissions for decompensated heart failure.
Target Audience
Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.
Accreditation
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 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.
Activity Directors
William D. Carey, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Kenneth Goodman, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Associate Director, Research and Development - Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Author / Faculty
Peter Eckman, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Disclosures
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.
The following faculty has indicated that he may have a relationship which, in the context of his presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
| Peter Eckman, MD | ||
| Consulting, Grant Support: | Thoratec | |
The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
William D. Carey, MD
Kenneth Goodman, MD
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.
