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• Cardiac Risk Stratifications for Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery (11/21 via Zoom)

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  Cardiac Risk Stratifications for Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery

  Address how to complete a cardiac evaluation for elective surgery by assessing patients and understanding the barriers to potential clearance.

  November 21, 2024

  Content Expert: Ashley Carter, DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, CCK

  Target audience: RNs, APRNs, nursing students.

  Objectives:   Define elective surgery.   Discuss the APP role in pre-operative risk stratification.  Review the newly updated ACC/AHA Perioperative Guidelines.   Discuss tools that are available to aid in decision making during pre-operative risk stratification evaluations.

  1.0 Contact hours will be provided to participants who attend entire activity and complete an evaluation.

  Click Here to Register for the Zoom event

  Please contact nurse planner Carolyn Dickens, PhD, APRN, ACNP-BC at cdickens@uic.edu for questions regarding the event.

  No relevant financial relationships were identified for any other individuals with the ability to control content of the activity University of Illinois Chicago- College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.