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Pathophysiology: Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema Media: DVD - 30 minutes  Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-1D1 $120.00 BUY 1st Year Licence* Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-1D1L $320.00 BUY Yearly Renewal**   Cat.# BL-1D1R $ 60.00 BUY

Enhance your patient care by deepening your understanding of heart failure and pulmonary edema. See exactly what's happening inside your patient and know exactly what it means for your care.

With this DVD, you'll get a wealth of practical information on every clinically relevant aspect of these two disorders:

• Anatomy and physiology: You'll review key structures and processes.

• Disease causes: You'll see how heart failure and pulmonary edema develop.

• Signs and symptoms: You'll link assessment findings to what's happening inside your patient.

• Complications: You'll learn how complications develop, and you'll recognize their warning signs.

• Diagnostic tests: You'll understand the significance of abnormal test results.

• Priority interventions: When these disorders reach a crisis point, you'll know what to do first - and why.

• Essential teaching topics: You'll know exactly what to teach your patients.

2007

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Pathophysiology: Coronary Artery Disease and Angina Pectoris Media: DVD - 30 minutes  Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-2D1 $120.00 BUY 1st Year Licence* Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-2D1L $320.00 BUY Yearly Renewal**   Cat.# BL-2D1R $ 60.00 BUY

See exactly what's happening inside patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and angina pectoris, and know exactly what it means for your nursing care.

With this DVD, you'll get a wealth of practical information on every clinically relevant aspect of these two disorders.

You'll be able to:

• identify key risk factors for CAD

• differentiate between stable and unstable angina, their pathophysiologies, and treatments

• understand how CAD affects internal structures and processes

• recognize signs and symptoms of CAD and angina, and link your assessment findings to what's happening inside your patient's body

• detect complications and intervene before they reach a crisis point

• explain to patients how diagnostic tests reveal CAD and potential risk factors, and how drugs and surgery help treat CAD and reduce angina pain

• teach patients with CAD and angina how to care for themselves and improve their quality of life.......and much, much more.

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Pathophysiology: Hypertension Media: DVD - 30 minutes  Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-3D1 $120.00 BUY 1st Year Licence* Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-3D1L $320.00 BUY Yearly Renewal**   Cat.# BL-3D1R $ 60.00 BUY

Identify signs of hypertension - "the silent killer" - and help treat it before life-threatening complications occur. You'll see exactly what's happening inside your patient with hypertension and know exactly what it means for your nursing care.

With this DVD, you'll learn how to:

• differentiate between primary and secondary hypertension

• identify modifiable and unmodifiable risk factors

• spot hard-to-detect signs and symptoms that point to potential complications

• determine which stage of hypertension your patients are in

• analyze diagnostic test results with skill and accuracy

• provide high-quality patient teaching that complements nursing and medical interventions and helps control high blood pressure.......and much, much more.

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Pathophysiology: Myocardial Infarction Media: DVD - 30 minutes  Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-4D1 $120.00 BUY 1st Year Licence* Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-4D1L $320.00 BUY Yearly Renewal**   Cat.# BL-4D1R $ 60.00 BUY

Spot warning signs and symptoms of myocardial infarction (MI) and its life-threatening complications, and intervene quickly and expertly. You'll see exactly what's happening inside your patient's body and know exactly what it means for your nursing care before, during, and after an MI. With this DVD, you'll learn how to:

• respond swiftly and effectively to reduce the risk of sudden death

• analyze electrocardiogram tracings and other diagnostic test results to determine where the patient's heart has been damaged

• understand how a non-Q wave MI progresses to a Q wave MI

• prepare the patient for related medical and surgical treatments

• provide superior ongoing nursing care once the patient's condition has stabilized

• teach the patient how to achieve a full recovery through lifestyle changes and cardiac rehabilitation......and much, much more.

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Pathophysiology: Arrhythmias Media: DVD - 30 minutes  Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-6D1 $120.00 BUY 1st Year Licence* Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-6D1L $320.00 BUY Yearly Renewal**   Cat.# BL-6D1R $ 60.00 BUY

Quickly spot the telltale signs that distinguish a potentially deadly arrhythmia from a benign one. And learn to prevent arrhythmias - or stop them in their tracks. With this DVD, you'll get a wealth of practical information on every clinically relevant aspect of arrhythmias. You'll see exactly what's happening inside your patient and know precisely what it means for your nursing care.

Among other things, you'll learn how to:

• link your patient's assessment findings to changes in the electrical conduction system
  differentiate between atrial fibrillation and various types of atrioventricular (AV) blocks and ventricular arrhythmias, including their pathophysiologies

• analyze electrocardiogram tracings and other test results to pinpoint the type and severity of your patient's arrhythmias

• provide or assist with state-of-the-art treatments, such as implantable defibrillator insertion and drug therapy

• intervene rapidly and effectively to limit complications

• teach patients about vital tests, treatments, and follow-up care

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Pathophysiology: Asthma, Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis Media: DVD - 30 minutes  Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-7D1 $120.00 BUY 1st Year Licence* Shipped in 8 days Cat.# BL-7D1L $320.00 BUY Yearly Renewal**   Cat.# BL-7D1R $ 60.00 BUY

Recognize the signs of asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis, and manage these disorders effectively to prevent life-threatening complications. With this DVD, you'll get a wealth of practical information to help you understand and treat these common respiratory disorders. You'll see exactly what's happening inside the patient's body and know precisely what it means to your nursing care.

Among other things, you'll learn how to:

• identify factors that can trigger a dangerous acute exacerbation

• quickly spot the signs and symptoms of an acute exacerbation

• expertly assess patients with asthma, emphysema, or chronic bronchitis

• analyze ABG levels and chest X-rays to estimate the details of respiratory compromise

• prepare patients for therapy with bronchodilators, corticosteroids, mast-cell stabilizers, antileukotrienes, and other treatments

• teach patients how to manage their disorder after discharge.

Evidence-Based Cardiology: A Clinical Review and Update Media: DVD Shipped in 8 days Cat.# AMS-8D $370.00 BUY

Important New Guideline Updates!

OVERALL OBJECTIVES: The overall objective is to provide the participant with practical and clinically relevant information. Upon completion of this CME activity, the physician or healthcare provider should be able to describe the current approach to formulating differential diagnoses, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive management of the various disciplines presented.

NEEDS STATEMENT: The need for updated knowledge in Cardiology is evident in the managed care environment for the purpose of cost control, but it is also an issue of quality in the practice of medicine. Due to the expense of testing, the ubiquitous nature of Hypertension and the increasing “epidemic proportions” of Congestive Heart Failure, the generalist is expected to ease the increasing demand upon the Cardiologist. Maintenance therapy and follow-up care is becoming the responsibility of the generalist who must now know the guideline-driven treatments of CHF, AMI and HTN as well as other cardiology-related disorders which are on the rise due in part to the aging of our society. These issues will be presented in a case-based and EBM format during which the currently accepted guidelines for care will be taught. This new evidence is the basis and need for presenting the CME activity “Evidence-Based Cardiology: A Clinical Review and Update”.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

TOPIC 1 Hypertension - Beyond the Guidelines - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
1. Define hypertension for the general population and various subgroups.
2. Recognize the importance of isolated systolic hypertension.
3. Recognize that low diastolic pressure may be prognostically good or bad.
4. Develop a step-wise approach to the treatment of hypertension.

TOPIC 2 Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation and Management - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
1. Identify what the surgical team wants to know.
2. Characterize the cardiovascular effects of anesthesia and surgery.
3. Identify the elements of appropriate preoperative evaluation, including the role of non-invasive testing for coronary artery disease, using national guidelines.
4. Identify perioperative measures, which may reduce the risk of cardiac complications.

TOPIC 3 Congestive Heart Failure - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to: 1. Identify the cardiac etiologies of pulmonary congestion.
2. Discriminate between ejection fraction and stroke volume.
3. List common causes of systolic heart failure.
4. Outline current standard-of-care therapies, differentiating between those treatments which reduce mortality and those that improve symptoms.

TOPIC 4 Aortic Valve Disease - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
1. Identify the patient with aortic valve disease through history and physical examination.
2. Describe the role of non-invasive and invasive testing in diagnosis and management.
3. Define appropriate medical therapy and indications for aortic valve replacement.

TOPIC 5 Mitral Valve Disease - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
1. Identify the patient with mitral valve disease through history and physical examination.
2. Describe the role of non-invasive and invasive testing in diagnosis and management.
3. List appropriate medical therapy and indications for mitral valve replacement and repair.
4. Recognize the symptoms and adverse outcomes that do and do not result from mitral valve prolapse.

TOPIC 6 Chest Pain and Non-invasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
1. Differentiate life-threatening from more benign chest pain.
2. Outline a step-wise approach to the patient with chest pain, with the use of probability analysis.
3. Appreciate the relative merits of the various diagnostic tests for coronary artery disease.

TOPIC 7 Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction - At the conclusion of this session, the participant should be able to:
1. Relate the differences in plaque morphology to the differences between stable angina and acute coronary syndromes.
2. Identify the patient with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction, including the use of newer markers of cardiac injury.
3. Recognize those treatment strategies that reduce mortality, and the importance of minimizing time delay.
4. Recognize and treat complications of acute infarction.
5. Assess post-infarction risk.

Cardiovascular Examination - Individual Buyer Media: DVD - 29 minutes Shipped in 8 days Cat.# MV-1S $120.00 BUY Institutional Buyer Shipped in 8 days Cat.# MV-1I $150.00 BUY

The film starts with a brief history, and then a demonstration of the systematic examination of the cardiovascular system in a 63-year old woman with mixed mitral valve disease. It finishes with discussion of examination technique.

2004

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