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Activity Steps

Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Purpose of Activity

The purpose of this learning activity is to provide information about various strategies such as ACE inhibitors, high-dose nitroglycerin, furosemide, and NIPPV, to treat patients in the emergency department with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

Explain how to employ strategies such as ACE inhibitors, high-dose nitroglycerin, furosemide, and NIPPV for patients in heart failure.

Price: $10.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Professions: Physician
Test Code: EMN0924
Published: September 2024
Expires: 8/31/2026
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Richard M. Pescatore II, DO
Categories: Emergency Medicine
Specialties: Emergency Medicine
Topics: Cardiac Care