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Published: January 1, 2008
Expires: January 2, 2010 |
To participate in JTCVS’s online CME activities, the learner must have an active individual subscription to the Journal. The same username and password that one uses to access JTCVS on CTSNet are needed to access JTCVS’s CME activities. (To obtain your CTSNet username and password, please go to http://jtcs.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/feedback.)
Each JTCVS CME activity consists of a self-study test on an original article from one of the journal’s three major subject categories (Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease, General Thoracic Surgery, and Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease), a statement of the learning objectives, and an evaluation of the activity. Each activity expires 24 months after its appearance online to ensure that CME activities contain content commensurate with up-to-date knowledge in the field.
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of the CME activity. The AATS designates this activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity (in 15-minute increments).
The learner must answer 100% of the test questions correctly to pass the test. The learner is given the opportunity to re-answer incorrectly answered questions until the learner achieves a score of 100%. Achievement of that score opens links to the correct answers in context within the CME-designated article. After passing the test and looking at the correct answers in context, the learner MUST complete the evaluation of the CME activity. After answering all of the evaluation questions, CME credit is awarded and recorded in the learner’s “My CME” folder from where the learner can print a CME certificate for up to 1 hour of credit. This information is also recorded at the AATS headquarters for future reference.
The minimum hardware and software requirements that the learner must have to participate in this CME activity are:
Macintosh
Windows PC
Unix Workstation or X-terminal
Printers
Browser Requirements
We support the current production version, and the production version just previous, of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Lynx. (Due to the graphical nature of the content in the online version of the Journal, we recommend Lynx only for those who have no other way to connect to the Web.) We support version 4 of Netscape's Communicator.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
You have the option to view any online JTCVS article as a PDF (Portable Document Format) document instead of as a Web page. To view these files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to view and print in PDF format. The Acrobat Reader is available from the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader Software page (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html). Follow the instructions on that page to download and install the software.
One hour.
The intended audience consists of thoracic and cardiothoracic surgeons, pediatric cardiac surgeons, general surgeons, anesthesiologists, oncologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, and radiologists. MDs and Dos may take the CME activities for credit; non-MDs and nonDOs should not claim credit.
The questions are designed to affirm the learner's knowledge and understanding of the topic covered. Participants should be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the clinical information as it applies to the provision of patient care.
JTCVS requires authors of CME-designated articles and authors of CME activities to disclose any conflict(s) of interest. If an author of a CME-designated article has a financial relationship with one or more companies whose products are featured in the article, the AATS and its designees will resolve the conflict prior to utilization of the article and the nature of the relationship will be disclosed on the first page of the published article. If an author of a CME activity has a financial relationship with one or more companies whose products are featured in the CME-designated article, the editor will assign another person who has no conflicts to write the CME activity. If the CME article describes (a) the use of a device, product, or drug that is not FDA approved or (b) an off-label use of an approved device, product, or drug, this information will be disclosed in the introduction of the CME activity. For both the CME designated articles and the CME activities, the absence of any declaration of a conflict of interest indicates that none exists.
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To subscribe to The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, or for subscription queries, please visit http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=00225223.
Learning Objectives
After reading this article, the learner should be able to:
• Acquire knowledge on longitudinal outcomes of aortic valve replacement with the Toronto SVP
• Learn the mechanisms of failure of this stentless porcine valve
• Understand virtues and limitations of this stentless porcine aortic valve
Disclosures: None.
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