COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

This educational activity will provide participants with an understanding of the physiologic determinants of tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery, with an emphasis on the interpretation of key hemodynamic parameters, including cardiac output and cardiac index (CO/CI), stroke volume (SV), filling pressures, systemic vascular resistance (SVR), mixed and central venous oxygen saturation (SvO₂/ScvO₂), pulmonary artery pulsatility index (PAPI), and cardiac power output (CPO). Participants will learn to differentiate shock phenotypes by integrating clinical assessment with invasive and noninvasive hemodynamic data. The activity will also explore an evidence-informed, physiology-based approach to selecting and optimizing fluid resuscitation, vasoactive medications, inotropes, vasodilators, and mechanical circulatory support to improve tissue perfusion and guide individualized patient management.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Critical Care Physicians, Cardiologists, Surgeons, Anesthesiologists, Emergency Medicine Physicians, Nephrologists, Pulmonologists, Infectious Disease Physicians, Neurologists, Gastroenterologists, Hospitalists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists and other interested healthcare providers.  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Explain the physiologic determinants of tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery
• Interpret CO/CI, SV, filling pressures, SVR, SvO2/ScvO2, PAPI, CPO
• Differentiate shock phenotypes by integrating clinical, invasive, and non-invasive data.
• Apply an evidence-informed, physiology-based approach to fluids, vasoactive drugs, inotropes, vasodilators, and mechanical circulatory support.

FACULTY AND DISCLOSURES:

Dr. Heidy Izquierdo, M.D.
Internal Medicine
Miami, FL

Dr. Heidy Izquierdo, M.D., faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Laiqua Khalid, M.D., conference director of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.

Eduardo Cartin, Arlene Torres and Elizabeth Prol, non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies*

*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS AND CREDITS

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-942286, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistants.  

This activity has also been approved for 1 credit for Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists and Techs and Respiratory Therapists. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.

American Board of Surgery - Maintenance of Certification (MOC) - Accredited CME - Surgical Critical Care

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

Successful completion of this course is submitted to specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS system.