Desert Cardiology Consultants Interventional Cardiology Medical Co-Director Eisenhower Medical Center Transcatheter Heart Valve Program
Location:
ICU Conference Room #3
Learning Objectives:
Use a multidisciplinary format to arrive at diagnostic and treatment decisions for patients who have complex, cardiac valve disease. Identify patients who have complex structural and valvular heart disease. Identify and understand the clinical features, including medical frailty, that may place the patient who has valvular heart disease at risk of morbidity and mortality
Identify and understand the clinical features, including medical frailty, that place the patient who has valvular heart disease at higher risk of morbidity or mortality. Apply surgical approaches for the treatment of valvular and structural heart disease
Understand and apply diagnostic studies such as surface and transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, specialized CT scans, and STS risk score in evaluation of patients with complex, cardiac valve disease
Understand the role and limitation of surgery and minimally invasive technologies, such as transcatheter aortic valve