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To commemorate World Hypertension Day, deferred on this occasion to 17 October due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, They are organizing the eventworld hypertension day: HEARTS in the Americas: Introducing a new online course to improve blood pressure measurement and celebrating achievements in protecting cardiovascular health”, that will be held Friday, 16 October 2020, of 09:00 a.m. a 12:00 p.m. (EDT).
This session will have simultaneous translation in Spanish and English.
About the seminar
High blood pressure affects more than 30% of the world's adult population and is the main risk factor for cardiovascular disease, especially coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease, but also for chronic kidney disease, heart failure and dementia.
Accurate blood pressure measurement is essential for proper diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.. Blood pressure measurement is perhaps the most frequently performed procedure in clinical medicine and, although it seems simple at first glance, If the measurement is performed in a suboptimal way, it leads to errors that can affect clinical decisions up to the 20-45% of the cases. Knowing how well health workers measure blood pressure, and improving the measurement technique are key elements of a successful hypertension control program..
The event will be structured in two parts.: of 9:00 a 10:00 am (EDT), papers will be presented on interventions that are making a difference in the control of hypertension, practical experiences of countries and partners, and presentation of new tools for hypertension control programs. The second part, of 10:30 am a 12:00 pm (EDT) will focus on the presentation of a new training and training resource for the correct measurement of blood pressure..
Audience
Primary health care teams , Medicine students, nursing and health sciences, coordinators of national programs on the control of chronic and cardiovascular diseases, professional societies and general public.
How to participate
after registration, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar.
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Agenda
The first part of the session will be announced soon.
Second part
- 10:30 am– Welcome and introduction. Dr. Pedro Orduñez. Regional Advisor, OPS.
- 10:40 am – The relevance of the prevention and control of hypertension and the global launch of a new resource to improve the measurement of blood pressure. Teacher. Norm Campbell, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- 11:00 am – New virtual course on correct measurement of blood pressure. Video presentation and comments. Dra. Tej Khalsa, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. USA.
- 11:20 am – Access to the course. Navigation in the PAHO/WHO Virtual Campus for Public Health. Lic. Carlos Leon, OPS, Panama.
- 11: 30 am - Questions and answers.
- 11:55 am – Closing the session.
time correspondence
- 6:00 am. - The Angels
- 7:00 am. – Calgary, Guatemala city, Saint Joseph, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa
- 8:00 am. – Rochester, Bogota, Mexico City, City of Panama, Kingston, Lima, Quito
- 9:00 am. – Atlanta, Bridgetown, Caracas, Georgetown, Havana, Santo Domingo, Washington DC
- 10:00 am. – Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Paramaribo, Santiago
- 3:00 pm. – Ginebra
For other cities you can check the time correspondence in the following link
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