Instructions

Date & Location
Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 12:00 AM - Sunday, September 28, 2025, 11:00 PM

Target Audience
Specialties - Physicians
Professions - Physician

Overview

[Why] is furosemide susceptible to malabsorption from “gut edema”?

Much of medicine is taught using clinical pearls. These small bits of free-standing, clinically relevant information are often based on experience or observation. Others have a backing in pathophysiology, even if the mechanism isn’t known to the teacher or the learners. On the podcast, we’ve covered a number of clinical pearls, including that cancer is a hypercoagulable state, azithromycin is anti-inflammatory, and that calcium stabilizes the membrane in hyperkalemia. Each of these pearls is true, even if most of us are unable to fully explain why. But other clinical pearls don’t have a good physiologic underpinning.

One example: “furosemide is poorly absorbed in decompensated heart as a result of gut edema.”


Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

  1. Reflect on the value and drawbacks of clinical pearls in medicine.
  2. Generate hypotheses for why furosemide absorption may be impaired in patients with decompensated heart failure.
  3. Apply the characteristics of furosemide absorption to patients with decompensated heart failure.

Registration

There is no registration fee to participate in this activity.  Login and click "Content and Tests" above to view content.

In order to receive continuing education credit, learners must listen to the 30 minute podcast, pass the post-test (3 questions, 100% required score, unlimited attempts), and complete an evaluation form.

Please contact us if you have any questions or problems with the system.

The planning committee members report having no relevant financial relationships to disclose:

Hannah Abrams 
Tony Breu
Avi Cooper

No commercial or in-kind support was provided for this activity.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Curious Clinicians and VCU Health Continuing Education. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

It is the responsibility of the participant to provide the correct information [ABIM ID Number and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive MOC credit for participating in a CE activity. 

Disclaimers 
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

 

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours)