Become an expert in Management of the Patient with ST-Segment Elevation ACS thanks to this comprehensive program and renew your knowledge in less time than expected”

ST-segment elevation ACS is a condition that worries not only cardiologists, but also primary care physicians and emergency physicians. This heart disease is as common as it is serious and affects millions of patients worldwide, some with risk factors or heredity and others with no previous pathology. Regardless of the causes, a correct, but above all, rapid diagnosis can have a positive influence on the patient's health and that is why these specialists need to keep up to date with the latest developments in techniques and treatments.

With the aim of updating and expanding their knowledge based on the most modern research, TECH presents the postgraduate diploma in the Management of Patients with ST-Elevation ACS, a comprehensive program that covers everything from the patient arrival and pre-hospital evaluation in the emergency department to management in the Coronary Unit, with emphasis on reperfusion therapies and arrhythmias in these patients. 

The specialist will be able, through this program, to get up to date on the latest pharmacological treatment in the initial phase, as well as on the most recommended complementary tests after admission. In addition, the program focuses on the most effective strategies currently available to reduce heart attack severity: fibrinolysis and primary angioplasty.

A 100% online degree with which, in just six months, you will become an expert in this field. For this purpose, you will not only have the best and most complete syllabus, but you will also have at your disposal a teaching team of experts in cardiology and a lot of complementary material with which to continue expanding concepts. Everything is available from the beginning of the program and 24 hours a day, so that the graduates set the time and thus, get the most out of this program. 

A qualification that will help you to implement the most modern pharmacological treatments for ACS in your daily life”

This postgraduate diploma in Management of the Patient with ST-Segment Elevation ACS contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include: 

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Cardiology
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies 
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable electronic device with an Internet connection

Having internalized the hemodynamic support measures during primary angioplasty is as difficult as it is necessary. With TECH's pedagogical methodology you will be able to remember and apply them without complications”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the program. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts. 

You will have access to real clinical cases in the virtual classroom that will allow you to put into practice the content developed during the program"

Update the concepts that will allow you to evaluate, in a more effective way, the patient with ST-Segment Elevation ACS in the pre-arrival phase to the hospital"

Although obtaining a postgraduate diploma may seem a difficult objective to achieve, TECH will provide the graduates with the keys to achieve it. The aim of this program is to ensure that the specialists take advantage of the knowledge they already have, offering them the necessary tools to update and increase it according to the current demand in the cardiology field. In this way, not only will they be up to date with the latest developments in the Management of Patients with ST-Segment Elevation ACS, but they will also be able to face clinical situations with the total and absolute confidence of handling all the information they need to fulfill their role in the most professional manner possible. 

The objective of TECH is not only that you obtain a postgraduate diploma, but that you have the most up-to-date and complete knowledge”

General Objectives

• Delve into Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) starting with its pathophysiology and its importance as one of the main causes of death in civilized countries
• Professionalize skills in the assessment and differential diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency department understanding the value of the different complementary techniques available
• Adequately classify the patient's initial risk and the most appropriate prehospital treatment and monitor measures in the prehospital phase
• Internalize reperfusion therapies, their limitations, advantages and protocols, understand the great importance of ischemia time
• Diagnose and manage the mechanical and arrhythmic complications that can occur in this syndrome
• Implement appropriate treatment measures during the hospital phase and the value of Coronary Units
• Develop the value and structure of Cardiac Rehabilitation programs
• Understand the treatments that have provided value in secondary prevention of these patients

Specific Objectives 

Module 1. NSTEACS 1. Clinical Picture, Presentation and Pre-Hospital and Emergency Assessment

• Develop knowledge in the different clinical presentations of NSTEACS
• Evaluate the patient with ST-Segment Elevation ACS in the phase prior to arrival to the hospital
• Understand the electrocardiographic manifestations of this condition, its possible differential diagnoses and the evolutionary pattern over time
• Assess general treatment measures and initial monitoring and pharmacological treatment, as well as which treatments should not be used
• Internalize the importance of the decision of coronary reperfusion and activation of infarction code programs and the importance of timing and delays in this process

Module 2. NSTEACS 2. Patient Management in the Hospital. Coronary Unit

• Deepen the knowledge of the usefulness of the Coronary Units in the prevention and early treatment of the complications of NSTEACS
• Recognize the antianginal, lipid-lowering and antithrombotic treatment to be implemented in patients with NSTEACS
• Understand the most frequent mechanical complication of this entity, CHF, from the mechanistic, treatment and prognostic point of view
• Identify the rest of the potential mechanical complications (cardiac rupture, VSD and MI) and their incidence, treatment and prognosis

Module 3. NSTEACS 4. Limitation of Infarct Size. Reperfusion Therapies

• Recognize the time course of myocardial ischemic necrosis and understand the problem of ischemia time
• Assess the available strategies for reperfusion, fibrinolysis and primary angioplasty, their advantages and disadvantages
• Control the necessary material and protocols to perform fibrinolysis or primary angioplasty
• Know in detail the anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy in the catheterization laboratory
• Describe a protocol for antiplatelet treatment in patients who also need to take anticoagulant drugs
• Internalize hemodynamic support measures during primary angioplasty
• Control the usefulness of regional reperfusion networks in the treatment of infarction

Module 4. NSTEACS Arrhythmias

• Understand the arrhythmia production mechanisms during ischemia
• Identify the main ventricular arrhythmias to be expected during NSTEACS and their treatment
• Recognize the problem of out-of-hospital sudden death and primary ventricular fibrillation
• Assess which supraventricular arrhythmias are to be expected in this pathology and which antiarrhythmic medication are appropriate during infarction
• Control the indications for pacemaker implantation and electrical cardioversion
• Internalize the indications for implantation of implantable defibrillators and resynchronizers and their results

Medicine, like any science, is constantly evolving. Trust TECH and get up to date with the latest advances in cardiology and ACS”