Course Description
Course Description:
Health care providers in any setting encounter a variety of cardiac conditions in the adult population. The understanding of these conditions is essential to providing patients with thorough care. With these conditions, there is a wide variety of cardiac tests and procedures that are performed, including ECGs. It is necessary for health care providers to understand these tests so that the results can be integrated into patient care.
This course will discuss the pathophysiology and presentation of ischemic cardiac conditions as well as cardiac muscle dysfunction and failure. In addition it will review cardiac diagnostic testing procedures. The course will also give an overview of ECGs and the components of cardiac rehabilitation. This course will leave health care providers with a greater understanding of cardiac conditions, their presentation, how they are diagnosed and the management of these conditions.
Contact Hours: 4 
Target Audience: 
Instructional Level: Intermediate Accreditation Information:
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Course Outline:
Hour 1
- Ischemic cardiovascular conditions:
- CAD
- acute MI
- HTN
- PAD
Hour 2
Cardiac Muscle Dysfunction & Congestive Heart Failure
- causes
- types
- treatment
Hour 3
- Diagnostic Tests & Procedures
- blood tests
- echocardiograms
- MRIs
- Cardiac catheterization
- ECG
Hour 4
- Cardiac Rehabilitation:
- stages
- approved diagnoses
- progression through program
Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the geriatric population
Professional Objectives:
- Identify the differences between stable angina, unstable angina, and acute coronary syndrome.
- List 3 factors that impact HTN and how uncontrolled HTN impacts the body.
- List 4 common causes of CMD & CHF
- Identify 5 symptoms in a patient with CHF
- List the differences between the 4 stages of the New York Heart Association Classification of CHF.
- Identify the gold standard for assessing myocardial damage.
- Recognize how a health care provider would use information from a patient's exercise test?
- List at least 2 methods of calculating heart rate from an ECG reading.
- List the 4 phases of cardiac rehabilitation
- List 4 of the diagnoses that are covered for cardiac rehab by CMS.
- List 3 members of the cardiac rehab interdisciplinary team.
Disclosures:
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Contact Hours: 4 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Language Pathologist and Nurse
Instructional Level: Intermediate
This course is offered for 0.40 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Related area).
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Suzanne Greenwalt is employed by Belmont University and receives a salary. She receives payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Authors:
Suzanne J. Greenwalt, PT, DPT, CCS, GCS
Suzanne Greenwalt, PT, DPT, CCS, GCS has been a physical therapist since 2002. She is an Instructor in the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont University. She is also a physical therapist with a long term care company. In addition, she is a mentor and educator in one of the APTA’s credentialed Geriatric Residency Programs. She received her GCS in 2011 and is an APTA Certified Clinical Instructor.
Suzanne has been working in geriatrics for most of her career in a variety of settings including skilled nursing facilities, acute care hospitals, and out-patient rehabilitation. She received her Masters degree in Physical Therapy and her Bachelors degree in Exercise Science, both from Saint Louis University. Her interest areas in both patient care and research are geriatrics and cardiopulmonary comorbidities in the geriatric population.
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