Presented by
Danielle Lawrence, HBSc, MPH, PhD/MScOT(c); Barbara Cifra, MD.
Description: Adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) are a growing population who often experience reduced exercise capacity, functional limitations, and multimorbidity. Although exercise is recommended, many patients receive generic or no exercise guidance and remain underrepresented in traditional cardiac rehabilitation programs. This 60-minute webinar will outline a scalable lifestyle medicine approach to rehabilitation for this population. Using the University Health Network ACHD Lifestyle Medicine Program as a case example, the session will review the program structure and the clinical rationale for integrating exercise, principles for prescribing aerobic and resistance exercise, and strategies to scale exercise across varying levels of function and resources. By the end of the session, participants will have tools to safely incorporate aerobic and resistance training for adults with congenital heart disease into their own programs.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the clinical rationale for integrating aerobic and resistance training into the routine management of adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) within cardiac rehabilitation and lifestyle medicine programs.
2. Identify key components of a structured ACHD exercise prescription model, including assessment, safety considerations, and strategies for progressing aerobic and resistance training in on-site and virtual settings.
3. Apply principles from a scalable ACHD lifestyle medicine program to design or adapt individualized exercise prescriptions for adults with congenital heart disease within their own cardiopulmonary setting.
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How to access CE Credit:
Live Webinar: Please complete the evaluation at the conclusion of the webinar to obtain your certificate. The webinar evaluation is available in the Learning Center. The evaluation must be completed to download and obtain your certificate.
Recorded Webinar: The recorded webinar course will become available within 10 business days of the live webinar. You will receive an email when the recorded webinar course is available. To earn CE credit, learners must complete the webinar test with 100% accuracy. The webinar test is included in the recorded webinar course package.
Credits offered:
AACVPR CE: This course has been approved by the AACVPR Professional Education Committee for a total of 1.0 AACVPR Continuing Education Credits.
Nurse CE: An application has been made to Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education activity for 1.0 contact hour for nurses.
Financial Disclosure:
All individuals who have the ability to control or influence the content of an educational activity have disclosed all relevant relationships within the past 12 months with any commercial interest. Relevant relationships are relationships with a commercial interest if the products and services of the commercial interest are related to the content of the educational activity.
Education Committee Chair: Rachel Jarvis, MA, ACSM-RCEP, CES - Nothing to disclose.
Speaker(s): Danielle Lawrence, HBSc, MPH, PhD/MScOT(c); Barbara Cifra, MD- Nothing to disclose.