In today’s healthcare environment, working in a vascular laboratory is extremely demanding, requiring a multitude of critical skills and abilities from today’s sonographer. The renal artery duplex examination is often viewed as the single most difficult examination performed. This lecture will cover a detailed description of the examination from patient preparation, to stenosis criteria and a broad array of tips and tricks in both a variety of normal and pathological settings. Sonography is very dependent on strong visual and motor skills along with critical thinking abilities.

This presentation is designed to help the sonographers, physicians and other imaging professionals formulate a plan to deal with difficult clinical presentations:

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar one should be able to:

• Understand the common indications for performing the renal artery duplex examination.
• Note the importance of knobology and image optimization while insonating the renal arterial and venous system.
• Identify the importance of direct and indirect renal artery assessment.
• Discuss how to obtain a clinically diagnostic renal artery duplex examination.

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The program goal is to provide primary care providers with up-to-date knowledge and tools to correctly diagnose and differentiate patients with Type 1 vs Type 2 Diabetes and treat them appropriately for better patient outcomes.

Outcome Objectives
Upon completion of this CME activity the healthcare provider will be able to:

1. Identify the new glycemic goal targets for patients, and how best to achieve these goals
2. Identify the most recent developments in therapeutics for Type II Diabetes (T2DM).
3. Identify the less common Type I Diabetic in an epidemic of Type II.
4. Apply the measures that can help prevent progression to T2DM in patients at risk.
5. Implement the use of Toolkits to improve patient outcomes.

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