Clinical Decisions Case-Based Lessons:
Congestive Heart Failure
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Expiration Date: June 26, 2011
Estimated Time of Completion: 15 minutes
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Description
Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes a related chapter from The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project; an interactive case; and an evaluation.
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.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- 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 educational activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim 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 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio |
Faculty Disclosure
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 he/she has no relationship which, in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
William D. Carey, MD
Peter Eckman, MD
Kenneth Goodman, MD
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education and UNITECH Communications®.
