Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Discover how radial artery access has been of increasing interest since it has been first described.
2. Discuss Heparin free dialysis in an acutely ill hospitalized chronic hemodialysis patients utilizing large volume saline flushes and premptive dialysis change reduces total dialyzer clotting.
3. Examine the effect of an early discharge protocol on the management and hospitalization rate of low risk chest pain patients presenting to the ER.

Faculty

Karim Al-Azizi, MD
Interventional Cardiology Fellow
UMMS - Baystate

Amin Kashef, MD, MPH
Interventional Cardiology Fellow
UMMS - Baystate

Rakesh Mahali, MD
Nephrology Fellow
UMMS - Baystate

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.