Cardiac Conditions – Pathophysiology, Diagnostic Tests and Procedures, and Treatment is organized by HomeCEU.
Description:
Health care providers in any setting encounter a variety of cardiac conditions in the adult population. The understanding of these conditions is essential to providing patients with thorough care. With these conditions, there is a wide variety of cardiac tests and procedures that are performed, including ECGs. It is necessary for health care providers to understand these tests so that the results can be integrated into patient care.
This course will discuss the pathophysiology and presentation of ischemic cardiac conditions as well as cardiac muscle dysfunction and failure. In addition, it will review cardiac diagnostic testing procedures. The course will also give an overview of ECGs and the components of cardiac rehabilitation. This course will leave health care providers with a greater understanding of cardiac conditions, their presentation, how they are diagnosed, and the management of these conditions.
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the geriatric population
Professional Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, the participant will be able to:
• Identify the differences between stable angina, unstable angina, and acute coronary syndrome.
• List 3 factors that impact HTN and how uncontrolled HTN impacts the body.
• List 4 common causes of CMD & CHF
• Identify 5 symptoms in a patient with CHF
• List the differences between the 4 stages of the New York Heart Association Classification of CHF.
• Identify the gold standard for assessing myocardial damage.
• Recognize how a health care provider would use information from a patient's exercise test?
• List at least 2 methods of calculating heart rate from an ECG reading.
• List the 4 phases of cardiac rehabilitation
• List 4 of the diagnoses that are covered for cardiac rehab by CMS.
• List 3 members of the cardiac rehab interdisciplinary team.