Heart Failure
Incorporating GDMT and PRO Endpoints for Personalised HF Management
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Learning objectives
- Review current GDMT in HFrEF and HFpEF
- Describe the relationship between initiation of GDMT and HF outcomes
- Prescribe GDMT according to current international recommendations
- Recall the elements of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire
- Describe the clinical studies that support the use of functional and QoL measures in practice
- Initiate quality of life and functional improvement measures in routine practice
- Initiate SGLT-2 inhibitors in patients presenting with De novo HF and in patients already on other GDMT
- Adopt shared decision-making with HF patients
Changing Paradigms in Therapy to Unmet Needs
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Recall the utility of EF in heart failure treatment, patient selection and treatment response
- Identify alternative measures to EF for the purposes HF severity and therapeutic efficacy
- Incorporate quality of life measures for assessing therapeutic efficacy in HF
- Recall outcomes from heart failure trials from recent congress and publications and their impact on practice
SGLT-2 Inhibitors - Another Piece of the Puzzle in Heart Failure
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Recall the results of key trials in HFmrEF in different patients' sub-groups
- Describe how SGLT-2 inhibitors can be used across the range of LVEF
- Apply emerging diagnostic approaches for HFpEF and HFmrEF
- Implement best-practice strategies across the range of LVEF
Making Gains in HFpEF: An Appraisal of Where We Are Now
- Not accredited
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Learning objectives
- Identify HFpEF patients who may benefit from being initiated on an SGLT-2 inhibitor
- Recall current inertia rates amongst prescribers who manage heart failure
- Adopt effective treatment strategies for HFpEF patients early in the disease course
- Recall current guideline directed medical therapy options in HFpEF
- Review clinical, real world and quality of life evidence for the use of SGLT-2 inhibitors in HFpEF
Heart Failure Management in a Changing Paradigm
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Recall the utility of EF in heart failure treatment, patient selection and treatment response
- Identify alternative measures to EF for the purposes HF severity and therapeutic efficacy
- Incorporate quality of life measures for assessing therapeutic efficacy in HF
- Recall outcomes from heart failure trials from recent congress and publications and their impact on practice
The 2022 ACC HF Guidelines: What Do They Mean for Your Practice?
- Not accredited
Published:
Learning objectives
- 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
