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

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This course delivers a comprehensive review of the diagnosis and management of heart failure across its multiple stages. Heart failure is a prevalent and costly disease causing debilitating symptoms and excess mortality. While cardiac subspecialists provide essential testing and treatment at various stages of heart failure care, the majority of patient management is handled by primary care providers. A clinical format will highlight the practice dilemmas and key management strategies essential to enhance the attendees’ confidence in caring for these challenging patients.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Recognize the spectrum of signs and symptoms suspicious for heart failure
• Describe typical diagnostic testing essential for the diagnosis and management of
  patients with heart failure
• Apply appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies for patients across 
  the spectrum of heart failure
• Describe when referral for advanced heart failure therapies is indicated
• Demonstrate complex decision-making when renal and/or pulmonary hypertension
  co-exist with heart failure

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This course is appropriate for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses, cardiologists, and primary care providers interested in an update on heart failure.

Pharmacology Content
Select presentations will contain pharmacology content as noted in the program. Identified presentations represent approximately 6.25 hours of pharmacology content.

Comments from Past Participants

"This conference is awesome because it gives you real world management strategies to manage complex patients." 

"The food and accomodations were excellent! The content and speakers were excellent!" 

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"This conference was incredibly insightful."

"This conference is such a good investment and leaves me with hope and renewed enthusiasm to improve our practice to provide excellent patient care."

"Overall, AMAZING conference, excellent and obviously very knowledgeable providers/speakers. I will be attending again!"

 "Overall, I really enjoy this conference & it is my second time attending."

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