Awareness of Congenital Heart Defects Among Healthcare Clinicians

Description

Although most individuals with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) require lifelong cardiology care, many adults are lost to cardiac follow-up or may experience gaps in care. This video-based educational curriculum aims to improve continuity of care between primary care and specialty cardiac care physicians for patients in care and mitigate adverse outcomes for patients who have been lost to follow-up when for instance, they may present in the emergency department or become pregnant. These quick, yet in-depth videos, will aim to provide real-time education to improve knowledge with respect to advances in CHD care for children, youth and adults, and support physicians in their care for children, youth and adults living with a CHD. For more information on CHDs visit the AAP CHD Toolkit at https://www.aap.org/CHDcare.

Video 1- OB/GYN Care for Patients with Congenital Heart Defects

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about important considerations in gynecologic care for adolescent and young adult patients with CHD, including effective methods of contraception.
• Describe the role of prepregnancy care for patients with CHD planning a pregnancy.
• Identify CHDs which are associated with the highest risk of medical complications and adverse outcomes during pregnancy for which multidisciplinary care is necessary.

Video 2 - Emergency Medicine Care for Patients Congenital Heart Defects

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about important considerations in emergency medicine (EM) care for patients with CHDs.
• Increase your awareness of the natural history of adults with CHDs and associated complications that may bring patients into the emergency department (ED) seeking care.
• Promote awareness among EM clinicians and other clinicians who care for adult and pediatric patients of the need for individuals with CHDs to receive lifelong cardiac specialty care.
• Identify referral opportunities in regions and refer adult and pediatric patients with a CHD who receive EM care to the appropriate cardiac care clinicians.

Video 3 - Pediatric Primary Care for Patients with Congenital Heart Defects

Learning Objectives

• Learn about important considerations in pediatric primary care for patients with congenital heart defects (CHDs).
• Increase your awareness of the expected clinical course of CHDs and associated complications that may occur.
• Increase awareness within pediatric primary care clinicians of the need for individuals with a CHD to receive lifelong cardiac specialty care.
• Identify referral opportunities in regions and refer pediatric primary care patients with CHDs to the appropriate cardiac care clinicians.

Video 4 - Internal Medicine Care for Patients with Congenital Heart Defects

Learning Objectives

• Review internal medicine (IM) care delivery for adults with CHDs
• Increase awareness of key milestones for preventive health care for adults with CHDs
• Identify referral opportunities to a CHD center for non-cardiac procedures
• Identify resources for additional information

Course Details

• Start Date: September 30, 2022
• Online Access Expires: September 30, 2025
• Credit Expires: September 30, 2025
• Activity Type: Asynchronous Online Course
• Course ID: 60252

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).