Overview

Join SCAI monthly for the latest emerging technologies in interventional cardiology.   

The December program features strategies for calcium modification, which aims to equip you, the interventional cardiologists, with the skills needed to address the challenges of managing calcified lesions. Through case-based learning, you will be empowered to achieve better outcomes for your patients with severe coronary calcification.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of these activities, participants will be able to:

• Describe the role of calcium modification techniques in addressing challenges posed by diverse types of calcified lesions.
• Differentiate between various tools and techniques used for calcium modification based on lesion presentation.
• Compare and contrast multiple management strategies for calcified lesions, considering their efficacy and safety profiles.
• Evaluate the potential impact of different intervention strategies on patient outcomes, including procedural success and post-procedure complications.
• Construct a comprehensive treatment plan that integrates calcium modification techniques and addresses the challenges posed by the presenting type of calcified lesion and other existing patient co-morbidities.

Agenda 

• Welcome and Opening Discussion, Dr. Riley
• Complex Coronary Nodular Lesion: A Case in Calcium Modification, Dr. Alaswad
• Managing Long Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease, Dr. McEntegert
• Managing Eccentric Calcified Lesion(s), Dr. Croce

Faculty

Accreditation Statement 

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation 

SCAI 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.

ABIM MOC

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 medical knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Successful Completion

Watch the content and complete the evaluation to obtain credit.

Registration

Cost: Free

Acknowledgment of Commercial Support

This webinar is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Shockwave. 

No in-kind commercial support was received.

SCAI's Independent Content

As a provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), it is the Society’s policy to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its activities.

Planning Process 

SCAI activities are developed by the SCAI planners prior to and independent of commercial support. Members of the Education Committee reviewed and approved this activity. If planners had relevant financial relationships, the agenda was peer-reviewed by a member with no relevant financial relationships.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

All participating planners, reviewers, faculty, and staff are required to disclose to SCAI all financial relationships with ineligible companies. SCAI identifies relevant financial relationships and mitigates them before the activity begins. 

Content Validation Statement

SCAI accepts the following Content Validation Statements and expects all persons involved in its professional education activities to abide by these statements for clinical care recommendations. All clinical and pharmacological recommendations are based on evidence accepted within the medical profession as adequate jurisdiction for their indications and contradictions in patient care. All research referenced to support or justify patient care recommendations conforms to accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis. SCAI does not promote recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing medicine that are not within the definition of accredited continuing education or known to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients. SCAI actively promotes improvements in health care and NOT proprietary interests of an ineligible company. SCAI's educational content is free of marketing or sales of products or services. Faculty will not actively promote or sell products or services that serve their professional or financial interests during accredited education. SCAI encourages faculty to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at first mention and where appropriate in the content.