Rheumatic Heart Disease Across the Globe

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Rheumatic Heart Disease Across the Globe

Recorded for 2024 Fall Conference

Credit(s):

1.23 Contact Hour(s) of CE

Program Number:

24096856

Original Program Date:

September 21, 2024

Duration:

1 hour 14 minutes

Access:

Available until October 15, 2025

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Category: 2024 Fall Conference, Adult-Gerontology, Autoimmune Disorders ... (show more)

Category: 2024 Fall Conference, Adult-Gerontology, Autoimmune Disorders, Cardiology, Cardiovascular, Cert Exam Domain - Diagnosis, Cert Exam Domain - Planning, Infectious Disease, International Health, Recent Additions, Social Determinants of Health (show less)

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Activity Duration

Content Expires:

October 15, 2025 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date.

This CE activity was recorded for the 2024 AANP Fall Conference.

This activity includes closed captioning.

Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the 2024 AANP Fall Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the live or virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies.

Overview
Rheumatic Heart Disease remains endemic is low-resource countries, especially Asia, Africa, India, and Oceania with more than 300,000 pediatric deaths per year. The complexities of the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria increase the autoimmune response and decrease the ease of vaccination development. This presentation describes the pathology, potential vaccination, the importance of clinical diagnosis for Strep infections and the need for antibiotic protocols for all countries.

Objectives

Increase awareness of the global burden of RHD to include in differential diagnosis in children presenting with heart failure.
Increase appreciation for the complexities and outcomes of molecular mimicry of Streptococcus pyogenes to reinforce the importance guideline treatment protocols.
Increase understanding of why no vaccine to provide education to parents and community on Strep infections.
Share a novel approach to increasing community awareness and nursing knowledge and skills to decrease incidence of RHD in Rwanda, Africa to showcase the importance of nursing in decreasing an endemic disease.

Speaker
Maria Kidner, DNP, FNP-BC, APRN, FAANP

Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.

The speaker has the following disclosures:

I have nothing to disclose.
My work at Team Heart is volunteer.
I am a Rotarian and my work on the novel project presented is strictly volunteered.

Disclaimer
Individuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2024 AANP Fall Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.

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1.23 Contact Hour(s) of CE