Cardiovascular Disease

ACP Pain Management 1: Pain Fundamentals

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the first of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…

CardioVIllage

CardioVillage provides cardiovascular education in areas of Practicing Cardiovascular Medicine, Echocardiography, New Topics and Trends, and Fundamentals to help learners understand and best treat their patients according to novel technologies, updated guidelines, and state of practice within cardiovascular medicine.

Cardiology Risk and Claims

Cardiologists are increasingly finding themselves subject to scrutiny, investigation, audits and medical malpractice claims for cardiac procedures deemed unnecessary after the fact. This monograph will provide an overview of the relevant claims data, peer-reviewed literature and professional guidelines relating to…

Patient Priorities Care – Helping Your Patients Identify their Health Priorities

In 2014, clinicians, patients, caregivers, health system leaders, payers, and funders from across the country came together to identify the key problems facing older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Their charge was to propose feasible and effective strategies for improving…

Acute Chest Pain: Evaluating Patients and Stratifying Risks

Chest pain is the second most common presenting complaint in the ED accounting for 6 million visits in the US annually and about 2 million of them are discharged to home from the Emergency Department. Of those patients discharged to…

Statins: What to Recommend When Guidelines Conflict?

More than 21% of US adults take lipid-lowering statin medications; however, the CDC states that many more people should be doing so. But who is eligible? The guidelines of the USPSTF, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association and the…