Digital Seminar

Advanced Cardiovascular Pharmacology Course

Name: Advanced Cardiovascular Pharmacology Course
SKU: POS078415

$249.99 Standard

Now more than ever, clinicians are challenged to prescribe the proper medications to treat various – and often complex – cardiovascular diagnoses.

Dr. Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN CCNS, has developed this intense one-day educational event to improve your patients’ responses to their cardiac medication regimens. You will immediately elevate your pharmacological expertise and earn up to 6.7 pharmacology CE hours!

Regardless of your setting, you must be prepared to manage cardiac conditions and prevent a cardiac emergency. Dr. Langlois will provide practical tools and tips that will make your job easier. He understands that you could literally spend hours every day researching novel and traditional cardiac medications; their indications, contraindications, drug interactions and evaluation of response to the treatments. Instead, allow Dr. Langlois to synthesize everything you need to know to safely and effectively manage your cardiac patients with skill and confidence.

You can expect the very latest pharmacological strategies for Antiarrhythmics, Anticoagulants, Anti-platelet and Thrombolytics, Antihypertensives, Cholesterol Lowering Drugs, Hypoglycemic Agents…and more! Register today!

Here's What You'll Learn

Hemodynamics and Shock (it’s not just pulse and blood pressure)

Pre-load, afterload and contractility
What about administering electrolytes to improve cardiac function?
Fluids; which ones and how much?
Vasoactive medications; do not ever mix these medications
Neurotransmitters and receptors; more than alpha and beta receptors
Case studies in patients with compromised cardiac output (You will never forget how to treat ventricular fibrillation after hearing this)

Antiarrhythmics

Sodium, calcium and potassium blocking medications
What can be given IV, PO, SQ, IO … and how much
Must know pearls for monitoring all the anti-arrhythmic medications
Case studies in patients with atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia, PSVT

Medications for Acute Coronary Syndrome

Aspirin; this is not a benign medication
Medications to administer in the ED
These are the medications for cardiac catheterization lab patients
Watch out for contrast induced nephropathy; these are the laboratory parameters you must monitor
Mono-clonal antibodies; this is new information
Medications to aid in smoking cessation
Anticoagulants, anti-platelet and thrombolytic medications; watch out for this very subtle but life-threatening event
Case studies in STEMI and N-STEMI

Heart Failure Pharmacology

Not just ACEs and ARBs now; guideline updates for 2021
Diuretics; demystifying what is the best diuretic for your patient
New medication category for treatment of heart failure
Case studies and medications in HFrEF and HFpEF

What’s New in Treatment of Hypertension – A Lot!

Treatment options for primary or secondary hypertension
Calcium channel blockers; what to do if your patient overdoses
Beta-blockers; what criteria is considered to increase or decrease dose?
Vasodilators; watch out for change in electrolytes when giving this medication
Do not mix these anti-hypertensive medications

How to Lower LDL and Raise HDL Cholesterol

Familial versus non-familial hyper-cholesterolemia
Statins and a whole lot more
These mono-clonal antibodies are the latest treatment in cholesterol patient management
Case studies in patients with altered lipid levels; why this medication and not that one?

Hypoglycemic Agents

There are 9 major categories of hypoglycemic agents…and counting; which is best for my patient?
Monitoring laboratory data – not just blood sugar now
Latest recommendations from the American Diabetic Association
Case studies with patients taking hypoglycemic agents - three keys to administer and monitor for in every patient

Pregnancy and Cardiac Medications

What medications are safe – up to which trimester
Cardiac medications which should not be given regardless of the stage of pregnancy

Everything You're Getting

More than 6 hours of video content
CE information to come

Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, and physicians.

Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and go beyond content review to sharpen the clinical reasoning underneath it, using illness scripts, anticipatory thinking, and layered case studies to help experienced clinicians reason out loud rather than simply recall answers. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of patients.

His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand, from cognitive-bias traps that shape a shift to the SBAR calibration that gets a "come now" call heard the first time. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program, and Dr. Langlois builds that link through near-miss scenarios and "what would you do?" cases designed to sharpen judgment, not just test it.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Paul Langlois has employment relationship with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Media Type:: Digital Seminar
Product Code:: POS078415
Duration:: 6 hours, 46 minutes
Copyright:: Jun 03, 2021
Closed Captions:: Available
Format:: Audio and Video

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography. A small portion of the material for this CE activity was developed with limited assistance from generative AI. All AI-generated information was reviewed for accuracy by the instructor, an independent content reviewer, or PESI staff. Evergreen Certifications is owned by PESI, Inc. Counselors please note: This activity is not offered for NBCC CE hours.

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