Advanced Practice Provider Course
The first annual SVM Advanced Practice Provider Course will be held in Denver, Colorado, December 14-15, 2019. This course will be a resource that will prepare participants to properly identify, diagnose and treat patients with vascular disease. The program is designed for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the vascular medicine field. This is a non-CME event.
Registration is CLOSED. Please email jwebb@vascularmed.org to have your name added to a waiting list.
If you've been accepted you can go ahead and book your reservation at the Westin Denver International Airport.
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The Westin Denver International Airport BOOK YOUR HOTEL |
For sponsorship opportunities and questions, contact Julie Webb at 847-686-2344 or jwebb@vascularmed.org.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Saturday, December 14, 2019 - Day 1:
Start Time: Noon
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Sponsored Gathering |
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Registration Desk |
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Welcome |
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About SVM and ABVM |
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Break |
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Claudication: Exercise, Pharmacotherapy and Intervention |
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History and Differential diagnosis of lower extremity pain with walking |
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Lower Extremity Arterial Imaging: When should I get this? How do I read the results? |
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Medical Treatment of PAD: Guideline-based pharmacotherapy |
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Exercise Therapy: How to Coach your PAD patients? What about Supervised Exercise? |
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Endovascular Treatment for Intermittent Claudication |
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Break |
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Imaging workshop: Reading PVR’s and Lower extremity DUS |
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Critical limb ischemia: Diagnostics and Interventions |
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What is CLI? How big is the problem? |
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How to triage a CLI patient. When is wound care enough? Intervention? Amputation? |
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What is a CLI team? How to best coordinate care for your patient? |
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors |
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Hyperlipidemia management: The use of PCSK9 inhibitors and other lipid lowering agents |
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Managing Diabetes in patients with PAD – From nutrition to Pharmacotherapy |
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Hypertension pharmacotherapy |
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Evaluation for secondary HTN |
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Renal artery stenosis diagnosis and treatment |
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Break |
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Jeopardy (and cocktails) |
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Break |
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Dinner |
Sunday, December 15, 2019 - Day 2:
End Time: 3:00 p.m.
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Breakfast |
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Venous Thromboembolism (PE/DVT): Assessment, Anticoagulation Options and Intervention |
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Anatomy (distal, proximal/superficial, deep) and Imaging of DVT |
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Pulmonary embolism triage: Distribution and patient presentation |
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Understanding etiology, hypercoagulability, and treatment duration of VTE |
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DOACs vs Warfarin in the treatment of VTE |
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When does intervention make sense for DVT? |
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When does intervention make sense for PE? |
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Edema: Stockings, Wraps and Pumps |
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Approach to the diagnosis of the swollen leg |
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Basics of venous insufficiency |
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Logical approach to compression: When? How? How much? |
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Introduction to lower extremity pumping and to manual lymphatic drainage |
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Introduction to interventions for venous insufficiency |
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Break |
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Carotid artery disease |
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Medical therapy for carotid artery stenosis |
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Indications for intervention for carotid artery stenosis. A moving target? |
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Carotid artery stenting – Case example |
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Carotid endarterectomy – Case example |
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Carotid artery stenosis surveillance; with and without a procedure |
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Arteriopathies and Aneurysms |
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Aortic aneurysms – Surveillance and thresholds for correction |
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What is a dissection and why does it happen? |
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Introduction to Fibromuscular Dysplasia |
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Introduction to genetic arteriopathies |
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Lunch |
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Blue fingers: From Diagnostics to Chemical and Surgical Denervation |
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Wound Care: Dressings, Topicals and Interventions |
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Wound and Compression Workshop |
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Closing |
FACULTY:
Coming soon!
