A vigorous exchange among researchers and clinicians helps accelerate breakthroughs, streamline the path from science to practice, and improve access to quality healthcare regardless of where patients happen to live. The American Heart Association facilitates that process through a variety of vehicles.
Conferences and Meetings
With participants from dozens of nations, American Heart Association and American Stroke Association conferences have become our most powerful incubators for global collaboration. Our Scientific Sessions and International Stroke Conference, known for debuting groundbreaking findings in heart and stroke research, attract tens of thousands of the world’s leading scientists and clinicians each year. Because many would-be participants can’t come to our meetings, we work to take our meetings to them by reprising key presentations in venues outside the U.S. as well as by offering key portions of the content on our Web sites and in e-mail newsletters.
With participants from dozens of nations, American Heart Association and American Stroke Association conferences have become our most powerful incubators for global collaboration. Our Scientific Sessions and International Stroke Conference, known for debuting groundbreaking findings in heart and stroke research, attract tens of thousands of the world’s leading scientists and clinicians each year. Because many would-be participants can’t come to our meetings, we work to take our meetings to them by reprising key presentations in venues outside the U.S. as well as by offering key portions of the content on our Web sites and in e-mail newsletters.
Professional Journals
Researchers and clinicians around the world rely on American Heart Association and American Stroke Association journals to learn about the latest groundbreaking laboratory discoveries, to share in the results of key clinical trials and to gain new perspectives via editorials and reviews by thought-leaders in science and medicine. Journal subscribers and the top-ranked content of the journals reflect this global perspective.
The family of journals includes:
* Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
* Circulation
* Circulation Research
* Hypertension
* Stroke
* Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
* Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
* Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
* Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
* Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
* Circulation: Heart Failure
Professional Membership
More than 27,000 clinicians and researchers rely on our professional membership programs to access a vast array of resources and to network with one another. Members connect to information, programs, news, tools and other resources through a secure Internet portal that places everything they need at their fingertips.
Professional membership benefits include:
• Notifications about research submission opportunities
• Opportunities to peer review manuscripts and abstracts
• Information about research funding opportunities
• Early notification of Association scientific meetings
• Listing in and access to the Professional Membership Directory
• Electronic and printed newsletters updating members about
late-breaking news and upcoming events
• Opportunities to help develop legislative policy
and participate in advocacy programs
• Opportunities to serve on Association Scientific
Advisory Councils
Professional Education
Clinicians must continually expand and update their knowledge. We help time-strapped healthcare professionals fulfill that responsibility by providing educational opportunities in a wide variety of formats, including live and online course, satellite broadcasts, webcasts, podcasts and event-related courses at conferences and meetings.
Statements and Guidelines
For more than 50 years, we’ve contributed to clinical knowledge through Association scientific statements and guidelines. Today, hospitals around the globe rely on them to help align and improve treatment of heart and stroke patients.
Statements are intended to help raise healthcare professionals’ awareness of state-of-the-art science related to specific aspects of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Commissioned and peerreviewed by the American Heart Association’s highest scientific body, the papers represent the consensus of leading experts in CVD and stroke.
American Heart Association and American Stroke Association guidelines are developed and continually updated to help clinicians make evidence-based treatment decisions as they care for patients with heart disease and stroke.
Quality Improvement Programs
Our goal is the same as that of healthcare professionals around the world: improving patient care. Association quality programs use our vast data resources and expertise to help caregivers achieve ever better patient outcomes.
Get With The Guidelines® Resuscitation (formerly NRCPR® The National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) is a family of programs, including modules for in-hospital heart failure and stroke treatment as well as a program for use in outpatient practices. What all three have in common is a focus on aligning patient treatment with the most up-to-date scientific guidelines. Patient data, recorded at the treatment site and compiled in data registries, are used to measure guidelines adherence and to arm clinicians with performance feedback and benchmarking information. Hospitals and outpatient practices use feedback reports to fine-tune processes and pinpoint areas for improvement. At the same time, the massive databases collected through Get With The Guidelines provide unprecedented opportunities for large-scale research studies that can pave the way to future treatment advances.
Mission: Lifeline® is a community-based program for improving systems of care for heart attack patients, including those with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). By identifying treatment resources and creating processes for linking care providers, Mission: Lifeline helps close gaps that can delay appropriate care. The goal is to build seamless systems to support the lifesaving efforts of first responders, emergency department staff and cardiology teams.
Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC)
Since 1972, the American Heart Association’s guidelines for ECC and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) have been accepted as the gold standard for treating cardiovascular emergencies. They serve as the basis for training materials used around the world. In fact, thanks to agreements with a variety of national heart foundations, health ministries and other organizations, we now have more than 450 international training centers (ITC) in over 140 countries. Our training materials have been localized and translated into 10 languages to serve the public as well as first responders and clinicians.
ECC courses for healthcare professionals include:
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support for Experienced
Providers (ACLS-EP)
• Learn:® Rapid STEMI ID
• Learn:® Rhythm Adult
• Airway Management
• HeartCode® ACLS Part 1
• ECG & Pharmacology
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS for Healthcare Providers)
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers Online Part 1
• HeartCode® BLS Part 1
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS)
• Learn:® Rhythm Pediatric
• HeartCode® PALS Part 1
• Acute Stroke Online
• Stroke Prehospital Care Online
