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Heart Failure

Incorporating GDMT and PRO Endpoints for Personalised HF Management
  • 1.00 EBAC

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
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Changing Paradigms in Therapy to Unmet Needs
  • 1.00 EBAC

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 
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SGLT-2 Inhibitors - Another Piece of the Puzzle in Heart Failure
  • 1.00 EBAC

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
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Making Gains in HFpEF: An Appraisal of Where We Are Now
  • Not accredited

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
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Heart Failure Management in a Changing Paradigm
  • 1.00 EBAC

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
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The 2022 ACC HF Guidelines: What Do They Mean for Your Practice?
  • Not accredited

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
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