Learning Objectives - Upon conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Construct a pressure-volume loop during a typical cardiac cycle.

2. Discuss the Frank Starling Law of the heart as it relates to preload, afterload, and myocardial contractility.

3. Interpret the effects of valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies on pressure-volume loops and the Frank Starling curve.

4. Differentiate the effects of commonly used cardiac medications on pressure-volume loops and the Frank Starling curve.

Speaker:         Ronald Ordas CNP

Location:          Phoenix Campus 4W 107

Accreditation
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Summary

As a provider accredited by ACCME, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Mayo Clinic School of CPD) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities.  Course Director(s), Planning Committee Members, Faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity.  Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place.  Faculty also will disclose any off label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentation.  Disclosure of this information will be published in course materials so those participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentation.

Listed below are individuals with control of the content of this program who have disclosed:

None

Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:

None

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:

Ronald Ordas CNP

Reza Arsanjani M.D. F.A.C.C.

Michelle Alland C.N.P
Marci Farquhar-Snow C.N.P.

Fadi Shamoun M.D. F.A.C.C.

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:

None

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