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The 2022 ACC Heart Failure Guidelines: What Do They Mean for Your Practice?

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The 2022 ACC HF Guidelines: What Do They Mean for Your Practice?
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Overview

Taking the recent ACC heart failure guideline updates as its core theme, this symposium will provide a succinct overview of the changes with one of the guideline’s primary authors. We will then consider how guidelines have evolved to accommodate the growing number of foundational treatments for heart failure and how we are moving towards personalised care. We also take a look at HFpEF, and assess how our treatment options have changed and what else can be expected for this population.

 

This symposium is part of Heart Failure Online 2022, a world-class virtual event dedicated to the latest heart failure treatment strategies to support better patient outcomes.

Support Statement

This programme is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from AstraZeneca. The scientific programme has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

Target Audience

  • Heart Failure Specialists
  • General Cardiologists
  • General Practitioners (GPs)
  • Nurses, Pharmacists, and other Allied Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Summarise the main updates to the 2022 ACC heart failure (HF) guidelines
  • Compare updates from the ACC with the 2021 ESC HF guidelines
  • Recall guideline recommendations for the initiation of foundational therapy for heart failure
  • Adopt foundational GMDT early in the disease course
  • Postulate how ejection fraction will be used in future trials and in future guidelines
  • Review existing and forthcoming trial evidence on SGLT-2 inhibitors in HFpEF

Module

Title

Duration

Speakers

Presentation & Discussion The ACC Heart Failure Guidelines 2022: What Did We Learn? 15 mins Biykem Bozkurt (Texas, US )
Presentation & Discussion The Future of Guidelines: Towards Personalised Care 15 mins Mikhail Kosiborod (Kansas, US )
Presentation & Discussion HFpEF: The Final Chapter in the Heart Failure Story? 15 mins Andrew JS Coats (Warwick, UK )
Presentation & Discussion.

The ACC Heart Failure Guidelines 2022: What Did We Learn?

Duration: 15 mins

Speakers: Biykem Bozkurt (Texas, US )

Presentation & Discussion.

The Future of Guidelines: Towards Personalised Care

Duration: 15 mins

Speakers: Mikhail Kosiborod (Kansas, US )

Presentation & Discussion.

HFpEF: The Final Chapter in the Heart Failure Story?

Duration: 15 mins

Speakers: Andrew JS Coats (Warwick, UK )

Chair

Andrew JS Coats

Heart Research Institute, NSW, AU

Prof Coats is Editor-in-Chief of the Cardiac Failure Review journal. He has published over 20 patents, more than 750 full research papers and more than 120,000 career citations and has a personal H-inde

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Panelist

Mikhail Kosiborod

Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, US

Dr Mikhail Kosiborod is a cardiologist, the Vice President of Research at Saint Luke's Health System, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, US.

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Biykem Bozkurt

Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, US

Dr Biykem Bozkurt is the Immediate Past President of the Heart Failure Society of America.

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