LMS Courses

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Miscellaneous Subjects. 10b-Transition of Care for Congenital Heart Patients. Presented by Adrienne Kovacs. Learning Objectives: Discuss when lapses in care begins in the CHD patient.   Define when to begin the transition process.  Define the transition process of shifting the care management from parent to patient. ACHD Basic Lecture Series and Testing […]

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Reproductive issues in ACHD patients. 9a-Contraception for the ACHD Patient. Presented by Disty Pearson PA-C. Learning Objectives Define which ACHD patients can safely use an estrogen based contraceptive. Define which methods of contraception contains estrogen and should be avoided in thrombosis-prone patients.  Define what the percentage rate is of being pregnancy

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Reproductive issues in ACHD patients. 9b-Genetic Counseling for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.  Presented by Ashley Parrott MS. Learning Objectives Describe what proportion of individuals with congenital heart disease have an extra cardiac anomaly Define frequency of  22q11 deletion in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot. Define what the percentage rate is, of

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Reproductive issues in ACHD patients. 9c-Pre-pregnancy Assessment In Women with CHD.  Presented by Candice Silversides MD. Learning Objectives: Define which ACHD lesions that pregnancy is contraindicated. Describe the use of BNP levels in the risk stratification of pregnant women with congenital heart disease. Describe the use of warfarin in pregnancy. Describe

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Treatment of Heart Failure in ACHD pts. 8c-CRT in the  ACHD Patient Presented by Jan Janousek MD. Learning Objectives: Describe the most prevalent indication for CRT therapy in patients with congenital heart disease.  Define what the independent predictor of a greater improvement is in systolic systemic ventricular function with regard to CRT

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Treatment of Heart Failure in ACHD pts. 8d-Heart Transplantation in ACHD Patients. Presented by Gerhard Diller  MD. Learning Objectives: Describe complications that can be seen in a patient with a Fontan repair, which would be most appropriately treated by a heart transplant.  Define one- year survival in congenital heart patients who undergo

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Rhythm and Conduction Disorders in ACHD patients: 7c-Case Presentation: A Fallot Patient with Palpitations.Presented by Joost van Melle MD. Learning Objectives: Describe the prevalence of VT in patients with corrected Tetralogy of Fallot who are greater than 55 years old.  Describe the prevalence of AF in patients with corrected Tetralogy of Fallot

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Treatment of Heart Failure in ACHD pts. 8a-Medical Interventions in Patients with a Systemic Right Ventricle. Presented by Berto Bouma MD. Learning Objectives: Describe the attributing factors of the patient whose systemic or subaortic ventricle is a right ventricle and the pathophysiology of ventricular failure.  Describe the evidence base for heart failure

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Treatment of Heart Failure in ACHD pts. 8b-Right Heart Failure and Its Treatment. Presented by  Alexander “Sasha” Opotowsky MD.   Learning Objectives: Define right heart failure.  Describe how the right and left ventricle are intrinsically different.  Define management of a patient with Ebsteins anomaly who is in right heart failure. Describe

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Imaging of ACHD patients: 6b-Heart Catheterization I: Diagnostic Aspects. Presented by Yonatan Buber MD and Michael Landzberg MD. Learning Objectives: Discuss oximetry run during catheterization. Define at what point during the respiratory cycle that catheter pressures best reflect transmural chamber pressures. Define calculations for transpulmonary gradients and wood units utilizing a

Atrial Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Presented by Louise Harris MD. Learning Objectives: Describe which post-operative patient has the HIGHEST risk of atrial arrhythmia. Define atrial arrhythmia and thrombus in the setting of ACHD. Define the associated risks in ACHD patients with atrial arrhythmias vs those without atrial arrhythmia. Discuss Intraatrial reentrant tachycardia (IART) arrhythmia

ACHD Basic Lecture Series: Rhythm and Conduction Disorders in ACHD patients: 7b-Sudden Death in ACHD: Indications for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation. Presented by Sing Yap MD. Learning Objectives: Describe patients with congenital heart disease rate of ICD complications and the most common causes of inappropriate shocks.  Define management of a Tetralogy of Fallot patient who