Overview
The third installment of this series will provide step-by-step guidance to treating bifurcation complications. Through case-based discussions, expert faculty demonstrate how to deal with jailed wires, perforations, and difficult catheter crossings.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of these activities, participants will be able to:
- Assess and apply procedural techniques to treat bifurcation lesions
- Examine imaging modalities and their best applications
- Discuss challenging bifurcation cases
- Explain treatment of bifurcation lesions in the presence of cardiogenic shock and STEMI
Agenda
- Host, Dr. Abbott
- Moderator, and Unable to Cross, Dr. Brilakis
- Jailed Wires, Dr. Croce
- Perforations, Dr. Wollmuth
J. Dawn Abbott, MD, MSCAI
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, MSCAI
Kevin J. Croce, MD, PhD, FSCAI
Registration
Cost: Free
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Medtronic.
Continuing Education Information
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 Credits™. 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 points 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.
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. 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.
All research referenced to support or justify patient care recommendations conforms to accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis.
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 personal 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.
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