Treating, Monitoring, and Identifying Patients at Risk for Worsening Heart Failure
Treating, Monitoring, and Identifying Patients at Risk for Worsening Heart Failure is organized by Prime Education, LLC.
Release Date: March 15, 2023
Expiration Date: March 14, 2024
Description:
Challenge your clinical decision-making in heart failure through a series of brief patient cases with real-time feedback. These scenarios will focus on implementing the latest clinical guidelines for heart failure treatment and monitoring including treatment initiation, recognizing worsening heart failure, therapy escalation, and switching as well as recognizing patients at the greatest risk of disease progression.
This activity is delivered in partnership with The American Society for Preventive Cardiology.
Agenda:
• Heart Failure Comorbidities and Risk Assessment
• Identifying the Signs of Worsening Heart Failure
• Monitoring Treatment Response in a Patient With Comorbidities
• Recognizing Who, When, and How to Escalate Therapy
Learning Objectives:
• Align clinical practices with current evidence and guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for initiating, adding, or switching therapies in HFrEF
• Apply the latest guidelines for treatment monitoring and risk assessment in HFrEF including patients with comorbidities
• Employ interprofessional strategies for engaging patients with HF in shared decision-making (SDM) to optimize outcomes and promote patient-centered care