Emergency Medicine: Cardiac Update 2009 (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Book 26)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners physicians and other healthcare professionals with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the care of patients presenting to the emergency department in such areas as:

Airway management
Asthma
Bite wounds
Burns
Cardiovascular emergencies
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Envenomations
Infectious diseases
Ingested foreign bodies
Gastrointestinal emergencies
Psychiatric emergencies
Risk management
Pain management
Poisoning & Toxicology
Resuscitation
Sports injuries
Trauma

Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the management of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and cardiac-related syncope and palpitations. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Describe the attributes of an ideal cardiac marker.
2. Review the strengths and limitations of various cardiac markers.
3. Utilize the multimarker approach in the diagnosis of AMI.
4. Apply the guidelines recommended for cardiac marker testing.
5. Discuss the possible cardiac causes of syncope and palpitations.