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10/16/2025 - Anesthesiology Grand Rounds-Cardiac disease: stories and fun facts-Mario Montealegre, MD

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Analyze specific historical events relevant to the practice of cardiac anesthesia.
  • Interpret the effects of cardiac disease in specific works of art.
  • Appraise the role of historical perspective in generating learning opportunities in medicine.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh 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.


The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.


Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Mueller RL, Scheidt S. History of drugs for thrombotic disease. Discovery, development, and directions for the future. Circulation. 1994 Jan;89(1):432-49. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.89.1.432. PMID: 8281678.
  2. Allam AH, Thompson RC, Wann LS, Miyamoto MI, Nur El-Din Ael-H, El-Maksoud GA, Al-Tohamy Soliman M, Badr I, El-Rahman Amer HA, Sutherland ML, Sutherland JD, Thomas GS. Atherosclerosis in ancient 
  3. Mainwaring RD, Mainwaring S. Doctor Gachet, in the kitchen, with the foxglove. Cardiol Young. 2020 Dec;30(12):1856-1865. doi: 10.1017/S1047951120002978. Epub 2020 Sep 22. PMID: 32959746.Egyptian mummies: the Horus study. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011 Apr;4(4):315-27. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.02.002. PMID: 21466986. 

Authors:
Mario Montealegre, MD — Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Associate Program Director, ACTA Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals are awarded (0.1) continuing education units (CEU) which are equivalent to 1.0 contact hours.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.