Heart Failure Management for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Primary Care Providers

January 18-20, 2018
Disney's BoardWalk Inn, Lake Buena Vista, FL

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Program

7:00 a.m.

THURSDAY, JAN 18

7:00 a.m.

Registration | Continental Breakfast

7:45 a.m.

Welcome and Program Overview - Pretest

8:00 a.m.

THE CLINICAL SYNDROME OF HEART FAILURE

8:00 a.m.

Does Every Swollen Dyspneic Patient Have Heart Failure? Building the Clinical Diagnosis

Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

8:25 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:30 a.m.

Echo in Heart Failure: What It Can and Cannot Tell You

Barry Karon, MD

8:55 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:00 a.m.

Initial Evaluation of the Patient With Newly Discovered Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Richard Rodeheffer, MD

9:25 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:30 a.m.

Case-Based Approach to Choosing Diagnostic Testing - Discussants: Drs. Mankad, Abou Ezzeddine, and Bonnichsen

Moderators: Barry Karon, MD, Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

9:55 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:00 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:20 a.m.

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Where Are We in 2018?

Barry Karon, MD

10:45 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:50 a.m.

Sarcoid Myocarditis: When to Suspect, How to Diagnose, and Treatment Options (pharmacology content)

Omar Abou Ezzeddine, MD, MS

11:15 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:20 a.m.

How We Discuss the Disease Trajectory With Our Patients? Panel: Drs. Karon, Rodeheffer, and Grazzini-Frantz

Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

11:45 a.m.

Rapid Fire Heart Failure Cases – Make the Diagnosis

Crystal Bonnichsen, MD, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP, Rekha Mankad, MD, Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m.

COMORBIDITIES IN HEART FAILURE

1:30 p.m.

Common Dysrhythmias in Patients With Heart Failure (pharmacology content)

Christopher McLeod, MB, ChB, PhD

1:55 p.m.

Questions and Answers

2:00 p.m.

Managing Anticoagulation in Heart Failure Patients (pharmacology content)

Dalene Bott Kitslaar, APRN, MSN, CNP

2:25 p.m.

Questions and Answers

2:30 p.m.

Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure: Picking up the Pieces After SERVE-HF

Sean Caples, DO

2:55 p.m.

Questions and Answers

3:00 p.m.

Cases Studies in Combined Heart and Renal Failure: Choosing a Strategy That Both Cardiology and Nephrology Can Embrace (pharmacology content)

Eddie Greene, MD, Barry Karon, MD

3:30 p.m.

Adjourn

7:00 a.m.

FRIDAY, JAN 19

7:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:25 a.m.

Welcome and Program Overview

7:30 a.m.

Optimizing Use of ACE Inhibitors, Beta Blockers, Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists, and Digoxin (pharmacology content)

Barry Karon, MD

7:30 a.m.

HEART FAILURE TREATMENT

8:00 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:05 a.m.

What About ARB-Ni and Ivabradine? Where Do These Newer Agents Fit In? (pharmacology content)

Daniel Borgeson, MD

8:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:35 a.m.

MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEART FAILURE IN THE OUT-PATIENT SETTING; HOW TO TRY TO KEEP PATIENTS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL

8:35 a.m.

Volume Management: Non-pharmacologic Measures, Diuretics Beyond Furosemide (pharmacology content)

Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

9:00 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:05 a.m.

How to Titrate Meds in Out-Patients With Heart Failure: Real-World Challenges (pharmacology content)

Tiffany Berg, RN

9:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:35 a.m.

Implanted Ambulatory Pulmonary Artery Pressure Measurement Devices: The Science and the Reality

Tiffany Berg, RN, Janell Grazzini Frantz, APRN, MSN, CNP

10:00 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:05 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:25 a.m.

MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEART FAILURE IN THE HOSPITALIZED PATIENT

10:25 a.m.

Initial Approach to the Hospitalized Patient: A Case-based Approach (pharmacology content)

Omar Abou Ezzeddine, MD, MS

10:50 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:55 a.m.

Commonly Encountered Problems in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure I: “My Patient Won’t Pee!” (pharmacology content)

Eddie Greene, MD

11:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:25 a.m.

Commonly Encountered Problems in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure II: “My Patient’s Hypotension is Interfering With My Ability to Manage Them Medically!” (pharmacology content)

Daniel Borgeson, MD

11:50 a.m.

Questions and Answers

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

When to Consider a Right Heart Catheterization and How to Interpret the Results

Robert Frantz, MD

1:25 p.m.

Questions and Answers

1:30 p.m.

Translating Clinical and Right Heart Catheterization Data into Proper Selection of Intravenous Vasoactive Drugs: Case Examples (pharmacology content)

Richard Rodeheffer, MD

1:55 p.m.

Questions and Answers

2:00 p.m.

Yikes! An Adult Patient With Congenital Heart Disease Is on My Hospital Service! What (and what not) To Do ?

Crystal Bonnichsen, MD

2:25 p.m.

Questions and Answers

2:30 p.m.

Take Home Points: Caring for the Hospitalized Patient With Heart Failure

Barry Karon, MD, Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

2:40 p.m.

Questions and Answers

2:45 p.m.

Utilizing Device Data to Optimize Treatment for Patients With Heart Failure

Christopher McLeod, MB, ChB, PhD

3:10 p.m.

Questions and Answers

3:15 p.m.

Wound and Non-Pharmacologic Edema Management for Patients With Heart Failure

Dalene Bott Kitslaar, APRN, MSN, CNP

3:40 p.m.

Questions and Answers

3:45 p.m.

Is Your Patient With Heart Failure Able to Undergo Non-cardiac Surgery?

Rekha Mankad, MD

4:10 p.m.

Questions and Answers

4:15 p.m.

Adjourn

7:00 a.m.

SATURDAY, JAN 20

7:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:30 a.m.

Welcome and Program Overview

7:35 a.m.

ADVANCED HEART FAILURE

7:35 a.m.

The Other Ventricle: Managing Right-Sided Heart Failure (pharmacology content)

Robert Frantz, MD

8:00 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:05 a.m.

Common Valve Disorders in the Patient With Heart Failure: Choosing Between Medical, Interventional, or Surgical Treatments (pharmacology content)

Rekha Mankad, MD

8:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

8:35 a.m.

Cardiac Transplant and LVAD: When to Refer?

Robert Frantz, MD

9:00 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:05 a.m.

Strategies When Discussing End of Life Issues

Amanda Lorenz, MD

9:30 a.m.

Questions and Answers

9:35 a.m.

Refreshment Break

9:50 a.m.

Symptom Management in Advanced Heart Failure (pharmacology content)

Amanda Lorenz, MD

10:20 a.m.

Questions and Answers

10:30 a.m.

Education Post Test

10:50 a.m.

Illustrative Cases in Advanced Heart Failure (pharmacology content) - Panelists: Drs. Lorenz, Frantz, Grazzini Frantz, and Abou Ezzeddine

Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP

11:35 a.m.

Summary and Closing Remarks

11:45 a.m.

Adjourn

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