Heart Failure Management for NP, PA, and Primary Care Providers

March 17-19, 2022
In-Person or Livestream | Disney's Boardwalk Inn, Lake Buena Vista, FL

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Credit Types: AMA PRA Category 1™ (16.0), Nursing (16.0), Price: $875 - $795 | Early registration saves $100

Program

Thursday, March 17
The livestream schedule will be run in Eastern Daylight Time.
7:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45 a.m.
Welcome and Program Overview - Pretest
The Clinical Syndrome of Heart Failure
Moderator: Grace Lin, MD
8:00 a.m.
Is This (Congestive) HF? Making the Clinical Diagnosis
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
8:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:30 a.m.
Echo in Heart Failure: Clinical Utility Getting the Most Out of an Echo in Various HF Scenarios
Barry Karon, MD
8:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:00 a.m.
How to Use Exercise / O2 Treadmill in Heart Failure Assessment
Todd Miller, MD
9:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break
The Clinical Syndrome of Heart Failure
Moderators: Barry Karon, MD, Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
9:50 a.m.
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
Barry Karon, MD
10:15 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:20 a.m.
Amyloid Heart Disease: New Horizons and Treatment Pharmacology Content
Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP
10:45 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:50 a.m.
How We Discuss the Disease Trajectory With Our Patients – New Diagnosis?
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
11:05 a.m.
Questions and Answers
11:10 a.m.
Choosing Diagnostic Testing: When to Order an Echo / MRI / CT
Ian Chang, MD
11:35 a.m.
Questions and Answers
11:40 a.m.
Pulmonary Bootcamp: Interpreting CXR and PFT
Eric Olson, MD
12:05 p.m.
Questions and Answers
12:10 p.m.
Common Dysrhythmias in Patients With Heart Failure Pharmacology Content
Fred Kusumoto, MD
12:35 p.m.
Questions and Answers
12:40 p.m.
Lunch
Comorbidities in Heart Failure
Moderators: Grace Lin, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP
1:45 p.m.
Lipids Pharmacology Content
Todd Miller, MD
2:10 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:15 p.m.
Combined Heart & Renal Failure: Nephrologist Approach Pharmacology Content
Suzanne Norby, MD
2:40 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:45 p.m.
Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure: What’s New?
Eric Olson, MD
3:10 p.m.
Questions and Answers
3:15 p.m.
Adjourn
Friday, March 18
The livestream schedule will be run in Eastern Daylight Time.
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:25 a.m.
Welcome and Program Overview
Heart Failure Treatment
Moderators: Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP, Barry Karon, MD
7:30 a.m.
Setting Up a Heart Failure Clinic
Grace Lin, MD
7:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:00 a.m.
Foundation of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy: ACE Inhibitors, Beta Blockers, Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists, and Digoxin Pharmacology Content
Melissa Lyle, MD
8:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:30 a.m.
What About ARB-Ni and Ivabradine? How, Why, and When to Use Pharmacology Content
Barry Karon, MD
8:45 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:50 a.m.
New Drugs in Heart Failure (Vericiguat/SGLT2) Pharmacology Content
Grace Lin, MD
9:05 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:10 a.m.
Outpatient Volume Management: Non-Pharmacologic Measures, Diuretics Beyond Furosemide Pharmacology Content
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
9:35 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:40 a.m.
Implantable Pulmonary Artery Monitor Pressure Measurement Devices
Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
10:05 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:10 a.m.
Refreshment Break
Inpatient Management
Moderators: Barry Karon, MD, Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
10:30 a.m.
Parenteral Dosing of Diuretics Pharmacology Content
Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
10:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
11:00 a.m.
Incorporating Data From Right Heart Catheter (RHC)
Yogesh Reddy, MBBS
11:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
11:30 a.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: Suboptimal Programmed Devices
Fred Kusumoto, MD
11:30 a.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: Cardio-Oncology
Ian Chang, MD
11:30 a.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: Anemia
Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP
12:00 p.m.
Questions and Answers
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
Special Topics
Moderators: Grace Lin, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP
1:15 p.m.
Fast Facts: Anticoagulation – Old, New, and Cool Pharmacology Content
Vuyisile Nkomo, MD
1:40 p.m.
Questions and Answers
1:45 p.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: Diagnostic Perils-CAD Pharmacology Content
Yogesh Reddy, MBBS
1:45 p.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: Diagnostic Perils - DCM Familial History
Melissa Lyle, MD
2:15 p.m.
Novel Interventions for Valve Disease (MV/Ao /TV)
Vuyisile Nkomo, MD
2:45 p.m.
Questions and Answers
3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Saturday, March 19
The livestream schedule will be run in Eastern Daylight Time.
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:25 a.m.
Program Overview
Advanced Heart Failure
Moderators: Barry Karon, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP
7:30 a.m.
The Other Ventricle: Managing Right-Sided Heart Failure Pharmacology Content
Yogesh Reddy, MBBS
7:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:00 a.m.
Frailty: Assessment, Management, and Implications on Outcomes
Vuyisile Nkomo, MD
8:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:30 a.m.
Palette of Devices for Temporary Mechanical Support
Yogesh Reddy, MBBS
8:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:00 a.m.
Cardiac Transplant and LVAD: When to Refer?
Melissa Lyle, MD
9:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.
Strategies When Discussing End of Life Issues
Amanda Lorenz, MD
9:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:15 a.m.
Symptom Management in Advanced Heart Failure Pharmacology Content
Amanda Lorenz, MD
10:40 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:45 a.m.
Education Post Test
11:00 a.m.
Illustrative Cases in Advanced Heart Failure Panelists: Drs. Lyle, Reddy, and Lorenz | Pharmacology Content
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
11:40 a.m.
Post Test/Closing Remarks
11:45 a.m.
Adjourn
Credit Types Offered
  • AMA PRA Category 1
    16.0
  • Nursing
    16.0

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