Accreditation

0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
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Target Audience

Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.

Description

Each activity within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series will include a related chapter from the Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project, an interactive case, a CME test and an evaluation.

Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.

Upon completing the CME lesson, the CME test, and the evaluation form, you will have the opportunity to print a CME certificate for your records.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Define the clinical entity of venous thromboembolism and the most common vessels affected.
2. Recognize the signs and symptoms of deep venous thromboembolism.
3. Be able to recognize deep veins and determine which are appropriate for anticoagulation therapy.
4. Identify the appropriate tests utilized to diagnosis and treat venous thromboembolic disease including the most common coagulation abnormalities found in patients with phlebitis.
5. Explain the rationale behind anticoagulation strategies for venous thromboembolism patients.

Activity Director

William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Author / Faculty

Michael McWilliams, MD; George W. Meyer, MD

Faculty Disclosure

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty has indicated he/she has no relationship which, in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Michael McWilliams, MD
George W. Meyer, MD