Ventricular Tachycardias

Thursday, December 15, 2016

7:30 – 8:30 AM, Smilow 11-146

William G. Stevenson, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Program , Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Target Audience

This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, physician assistants, QI professionals, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, and nursing students in the medical specialties of internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine

Series Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

·  Recognize the importance of systems-based practice and the importance of collaborative efforts involving interprofessional teams for safety and quality improvements

·  Describe evidence supporting latest treatments for cardiac conditions

·  Assess patient care through discussing medical errors, complications and unanticipated outcomes

·  Improve practice through reviewing records, specifics and revisiting errors

·  Review experimental data from translational and clinical studies with the potential to influence practice

·  Assess the results of clinical trials from a regional and national view

Session Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

·  Identify the relation between ventricular scar and monomorphic ventricular tachycardia

·  Discuss the relevance of polymorphic versus monomorphic ventricular tachycardia

Accreditation

Physicians: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Nurses: Penn Medicine Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval # 124-3-H-15

Designation of Credit

Physicians: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: Nurse participants will be awarded 1.0 contact hour.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE For more information, please contact

Lynn Radnich, 215-662-3140

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products

It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing Education, Innovation and Professional Development for individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have with any commercial interest that provide products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

The intent of this policy is to ensure that Penn CME/CNE certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relevant to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically rigorous and evidence-based presentations.

The staff in the Office of CME at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP, Director of CME, Zalman Agus, MD, Senior peer reviewer and Patricia A. Smith, DNP, RN-BC, Nursing professional development specialist of the HUP Department of Nursing Innovation and Development have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:

Planning Committee Member Name

John Hirshfeld, MD / Jana Goldberg, MD / Taisei Kobayashi, MD
Mary Frances Suter, DNP, CRNP, ACC / Daniel Kolansky, MD / Zolt Arany, MD, PhD

Presenter Name

The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.

Planning Committee Member Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship

Thomas P. Cappola, MD, ScM Novartis DSMB

Presenter Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship

William Stevenson, MD St Jude Medical Spouse receives research funding

Brigham & Women’s inventor/patent for needle ablation

Relevant financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received or expected

Disclosure of Unapproved Uses of Products

Presenter name Product Investigational and/or Off-label Use