Femoral Access and Femoral Vascular Closure is organized by North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (NACCME) and would be held during Dec 19, 2014 - Jan 7, 2017.
The target audience for this medical event are interventional cardiologists, vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, nurses, technicians, and other cardiology related healthcare professionals. This CME conference has been approved with a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
• Review various techniques for obtaining common femoral arterial access, highlighting modern evidence based techniques
• Develop strategies for sheath management
• Discuss methods to minimize complications
• Provide overview of available closure techniques
• Review data from meta-analyses of randomized trials comparing femoral vascular closure devices to manual compression including bleeding complications and time to ambulation
• Review best practices to optimize outcomes for vascular access and closure