CME
Certificates and
Certificates of Attendance
Thank you for your participation in the 2010 meeting. If you did not pick up your CME certificate or certificate of attendance onsite, please contact Laura Brown at SCAI directly at 202.683.9182 or at LBrown@scai.org.
For those who attended the Intervention Summit for Interventional Fellows course, please contact Complete Conference Management at 305.279.2263 or at questions@ccmcme.com.
Learning
Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
- Demonstrate a contemporary multidisciplinary
approach to global cardiovascular intervention;
- Appropriately select patients for renal
intervention and choose the most appropriate renal
intervention option;
- Assess patients with carotid and vertebral artery
disease and identify high-risk anatomy in order to
choose the most appropriate therapies;
- Apply guidelines and diagnostic techniques to
perform appropriate patient selection for PFO
closure;
- Apply guidelines to identify patients at risk and
perform screening for PAD;
- Evaluate the efficacy of new techniques and
devices for treating structural heart disease and
performing cardiovascular and peripheral
interventions;
- Apply the basic clinical, cognitive and technical skills required to begin a global cardiovascular interventional program.
Target Audience
Peripheral Angioplasty and All That Jazz will be of value to interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, nurses/nurse practitioners, physician assistants, technologists and others involved in treating patients with cardiovascular disease.
Accreditation
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the essential areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and Complete Conference Management. SCAI is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions designates this educational activity for a maximum of 25.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should claim only the credit he/she actually spent in the activity.
Note: The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Certification Program recognizes the AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Please contact ANCC at 1-800-284-2378 for further clarification.
Disclaimer
The information provided at this CME activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.
Faculty Disclosure
All faculty participating in SCAI sponsored Continuing Medical Education programs are required to disclose to the audience any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest related to the content of their presentation, and any discussions of unlabeled or investigational use of any commercial product or device not yet approved in the United States.
Unlabeled and Unapproved Products and/or Procedures
Faculty at this activity may discuss information about pharmaceutical agents and/or devices and/or procedures that is outside of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved labeling. This information is intended solely for continuing medical education and is not intended to promote off-label use of these medications, devices and procedures. If you have questions, contact the medical affairs department of the manufacturer for the most recent prescribing information.
Commercial Financial Support
Peripheral Angioplasty and All That Jazz is sponsored in part through exhibit fees and unrestricted educational grants from medical device and pharmaceutical industries. A complete list of supporters will be distributed at the meeting.
Commercial support from industry does not influence educational content, faculty selection, and/or product usage during demonstrations and, therefore, does not compromise the scientific integrity of this SCAI/Complete Conference Management program. The decision to discuss off-label product usage and/or off-label product use during demonstration is made at the sole discretion of the faculty. Off-label product usage is not endorsed by the course director, the Peripheral Angioplasty and All That Jazz program, or the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.