Rapid Clinical Updates: High-Value Care in Practice: Appropriate Cardiac Biomarker Use for Hospitalists

This session will review appropriate clinical indications for cardiac biomarker testing, strategies to avoid unnecessary biomarkers testing and effective quality improvement interventions to reduce unnecessary biomarker testing among hospitalized patients.

This session is presented by Christine Soong, MD, MSc and David Berg, MD, MPH. Our moderators are Lily Ackermann, MD, ScM, FHM and Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM.

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On-Demand

Expires on Jul 24, 2027

Cost

Member: $0.00

Non-Member: $95.00

Credit Offered

1 CME Credit

1 Participation Credit

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Faculty

Christine Soong, MD, MSc
David Berg, MD, MPH
Lily Ackermann, ScM, MD, FACS, SFHM
Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM

Faculty Disclosures
The faculty and planners of these activities have no relevant relationships to disclose. All relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.

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In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, SHM requires that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. SHM mitigates all conflicts of interest to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all its educational programs. All relevant financial relationships shall be disclosed to participants prior to the start of the activity.

Furthermore, SHM seeks to verify that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in a continuing medical education (CME) activity conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. SHM is committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME activities that promote improvements in healthcare and not those of a commercial interest.

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this online activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Rapid Clinical Updates: Syncope Simplified

This session will provide a simplified approach to the evaluation of syncope. We will review high-yield tests and features to aid in appropriate evaluation and disposition of patients with syncope.

This session is presented by Lauren Westafer, DO, MPH, MS, FACEP and Carrie Herzke, MD, SFHM, FAAP, FACP. Our moderator is Lily Ackermann, MD, ScM, FHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Heart Failure Implementation Science and Best Clinical Practices

This session will focus on the current evidence for implementation strategies to promote the adoption of guideline directed medical therapy in heart failure. We will cover the gaps in care, the rationale for implementation science in this condition, recent implementation trial evidence, and a look toward the future for implementation science across cardiometabolic care.

This session is presented by Safia Chatur, MD and Ankeet Bhatt, MD, MBA, ScM. Our moderators are Lily Ackermann, MD, ScM, FHM and Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Inpatient Management of COPD

This session is presented by Valerie Press, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAP, SFHM, ATSF and Sarah E. Gray, MD. Our moderator is Lily Ackermann, MD.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Updates in Gastrointestinal Bleed

With all the complicated patients you take care of on a daily basis, don't you long for the straightforward GI bleeder? We will discuss GI Bleeds from both the hospitalist perspective with medical management, but also from the GI perspective highlighting what is done in the endoscopy suite.

This session is presented by Marijeta Pekez, MD and Benjamin Verplanke, MD, FACP, FHM. Our moderator is Jagriti Chadha, MD, FHM, SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Atrial Fibrillation Occurring During Acute Hospitalization

This session is presented by Janice Chyou, MD and Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM. Our moderator is Joseph Sweigart, MD. SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Updates in Acute Stroke Management

This session is presented by Madison Paul, MD and Emiliya Melkumova, MD. Our moderators are Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM and Lily Ackermann, MD, ScM, FHM. This talk will discuss high-yield evidence-based answers to questions commonly encountered when taking care of acute stroke patients. This session will be helpful for academic and non-academic hospitalists physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, or anyone else who practices adult hospital medicine. Attendees will learn the appropriate acute treatment of minor stroke and TIA, as well as how to manage anticoagulation in patients with a. fib and breakthrough stroke.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Inpatient AUD Pearls and Adulterants in the Unregulated Supply

This session will explore substance use disorders beyond OUD. We will discuss treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) beyond just simply treating alcohol withdrawal, including initiating medications to treat AUD (MAUD) prior to discharge and implementing evolving alcohol withdrawal management into clinical practice. In addition, given the rapidly changing unregulated supply, we will highlight critical pearls hospitalists must know about adulterants in the unregulated drug supply.

This session is presented by Raagini Jawa, MD, MPH, FASAM and Melissa Bregger, MD, FACP. Our moderator is Jagriti Chadha, MD, FHM, SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Delirium and Inpatient Psychotropics

This session will discuss the burden of delirium among hospitalized patients, current preventive and therapeutic approaches to delirium, and the long-term impact of delirium. We will also discuss strategies for prevention of delirium in the hospital setting and how to recognize delirium in hospitalized patients, as well as pearls and pitfalls of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies to manage delirium and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). At the end of the presentation, the audience will be able to identify delirium, assess its severity, and appreciate the long-term adverse consequences of delirium.

This session is presented by Jennifer Woodard, MD and Babar Ali Khan, MD. Our moderator is Joseph Sweigart, MD, FHM, SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00