2025-2026 PANCE Cardiovascular System Content Blueprint
Cardiovascular System (11%)
2025 PANCE Blueprint Online
2025 PANCE Trello Board
2025-2026 NCCPA™ PANCE Cardiology System Content Blueprint
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Cardiovascular System (11%)
2019-2024 PANCE Cardiovascular System Blueprint (Retired)
Current 2019-2024 NCCPA™ PANCE Cardiology System Content Blueprint
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Cardiovascular System (13%)
2024 Blueprint Online
2024 PANCE Trello Board
PANCE Cardiovascular System Blueprint Updates for 2025
Here is a summary of the new additions/updates to the 2024 PANCE Cardiovascular System Blueprint that took effect in January 2025. |
The percentage has decreased from 13% to 11%
- Cardiomyopathy now includes a new topic of stress cardiomyopathy
- Under the category of conduction disorders/dysrhythmias
- Atrial flutter has finally separated from its friend, atrial fibrillation, and become its own topic (Yay, atrial flutter!)
- New topics include
- Atrial tachycardia
- Bradycardia
- Idioventricular rhythm
- Junctional rhythms
- Premature contractions
- QT prolongation
- Unser congenital heart disease
- New topic of
- Patent foramen ovale
- Transposition of great vessels
- Under coronary artery disease
- New topic of acute coronary syndrome and atherosclerosis
- Removed prinzmetal variant and stable angina
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- Essential hypertension has been reclassified as primary hypertension
- Cardiogenic shock has been removed from the category of hypotension and given its own category now with four shock subtypes:
- Cardiogenic
- Distributive
- Hypovolemic
- Obstructive
- Under traumatic, infectious, and inflammatory heart conditions:
- No longer acute and subacute bacterial endocarditis but now simply infective endocarditis
- New topic of myocarditis
- Under the category of vascular disease, venous thrombosis is now deep venous thrombosis
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