HYPERTENSION: From Diagnosis to Resistant Cases
Sachin V. Pasricha, MD, FRCPC, ABIM, CHS, MPH
Topics: Hypertension
- Up to 1.5 CFPC Mainpro+ Credits
- Up to 1.5 Royal College (section 1) Credits
- Objectives
- Faculty
- Credit
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the decline in hypertension control in Canada and who is being missed
- Diagnose hypertension and confirmed out of office with a validated cuff
- Apply the Hypertension Canada treatment algorithm, and adapt it for individual patients
- Screen all patients with hypertension for primary aldosteronism, and recognize aldosterone as a key driver of resistant hypertension
- Identify which patients need screening for secondary causes, and how to screen them.
Sachin V. Pasricha MD, FRCPC, ABIM, CHS, MPH
MD | MPH | FRCPC | ABIM | Certified Hypertension Specialist
Dr. Sachin Pasricha is a nephrology clinical associate and hypertension specialist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has completed training in internal medicine and nephrology at the University of Toronto, and a hypertension fellowship at Stanford University. He holds leadership roles with Hypertension Canada and the Canadian Hypertension Specialist Society. His specific efforts have focused on ensuring blood pressure devices are validated and accurate, understanding the implications of cuffless blood pressure devices, and the role of aldosterone in hypertension. He has been invited to speak to the American Society of Nephrology, American Heart Association, and Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, and seven University of Toronto family medicine teaching sites.
Credit Information
This Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the CFPC & has been certified by Queen's University for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ Credits and is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College and approved by Queen’s University Office of CPD for up to 1.5 hours.