Learning Objectives

Describe the concept of the Heart Team, including the key components and functionality;

  1. Describe the concept of the Heart Team, including the key components and functionality

  2. List transcatheter options to address heart valve pathology including aortic, mitral, tricuspid and pulmonic stenosis and regurgitation

  3. Describe the latest interventional and surgical techniques and therapies for structural heart disease and congenital heart disease

  4. Implement appropriate patient selection and referral for surgical versus percutaneous/transcatheter mitral and aortic valve intervention

  5. Incorporate various diagnostic technologies including transthoracic echocardiography, intracardiac echocardiography, TEE, CT, and CMR to guide management of valvular heart disease

  6. Describe the differences in outcomes in valvular and coronary pathology in men and women 

  7. Describe the racial disparities encountered in cardiovascular health.

  8. Choose and utilize appropriately the various hemodynamic support and interventional/surgical tools to assist in the management of cardiogenic shock

  9. Identify for LA appendage closure the appropriate indications, the pre-procedural evaluation, the available and emerging technologies to manage the left atrial appendage. and the impact on mitigating stroke risk

  10. Summarize the latest developments and the current guidelines on the appropriate use of surgical and percutaneous coronary revascularization

  11.  Identify how to evaluate, follow, refer and treat patients with thoracic aneurysms.

  12. Implement the latest guidelines when evaluating/imaging the patient with suspected coronary artery disease