2024 Program

Focused on the needs of nurses, technologists, APPs, and sonographers, the Vascular Care Team Symposium offers 4 hours of presentations emphasizing a team-based approach to vascular care. These dedicated sessions will cover venous and carotid disease, cardiovascular risk reduction techniques, PAD, and more.

Attendees may also attend all VIVA sessions including morning tracks, the Roundtable, Strategies on the Frontline, the PE Summit, and more.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

2024 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ehrin J. Armstrong, MD; Ali Moran Baird, DNP, AGACNP; Christine T. Owen, MS, ACNP-BC, RNFA


Agenda

Sunday, November 3

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK REDUCTION & ADVANCING HYPERTENSION THERAPIES

  • Smoking Cessation: Options for Treatment
  • Role of Statin Therapy in Risk Reduction and Other Lipid-Lowering Strategies
  • Antiplatelet and Low-Dose Anticoagulation in Vascular Disease
  • Medical Management of Hypertension
  • Workup for Patients Undergoing Renal Denervation
  • Overview of the Renal Denervation Procedure

PAD: ACUTE VS CHRONIC LIMB ISCHEMIA

  • PAD: Anatomy/Physiology/Physical Exam
  • Primer on Lower Extremity in Noninvasive Arterial Imaging
  • Acute Limb Ischemia: Acute vs Chronic and When to Know the Difference
  • Lower Extremity PAD: Case Presentation
  • Deep Vein Arterialization for CLTI
  • Treatment of Acute Limb Ischemia

Monday, November 4

FROM VARICOSE VEINS TO ULCERS: THE SPECTRUM OF VENOUS DISEASE

  • Chronic Venous Disease: Diagnosis, Classification, and Management
  • Definitive Therapy of Superficial Venous Disorders
  • Interventional Therapies for Chronic Venous Obstruction
  • Code Venous: How to Develop VTE Inpatient Programs
  • Updates on Catheter-Directed Therapy for PE
  • Post-Hospital Follow-Up Program for VTE Patients

CAROTID DISEASE: MEDICAL MANAGEMENT & REVASCULARIZATION

  • Advances in Stroke Intervention
  • Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Carotid Disease: Medical Therapy and Decision-Making for Revascularization
  • Innominate and Subclavian Artery Disease: How to Evaluate, When to Treat
  • Carotid Endarterectomy vs Stenting: When to Choose Which
  • New Advances in Carotid Stenting
  • Carotid Intervention: A Procedural Nurse's Perspective

Claim Credits

To receive your certificate of attendance for VIVA22, please click the "2022" button below. To log in, use the email address that you used to register for the program. Please note, this login email may be different from your Virtual VIVA app login credentials.

For additional questions please contact cme@viva-foundation.org.

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