Heart Failure Management for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Primary Care Providers
March 21-23, 2019
Disney's Boardwalk Inn, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Registration Closed
Credit Types:
AMA PRA Category 1™
(16.0),
Nursing
(16.0),
Price: $775 - $850 | Early registration saves $100
Program
7:00 a.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019
7:00 a.m.
Registration | Continental Breakfast
7:45 a.m.
Welcome and Program Overview-Pre-test
7:45 a.m.
THE CLINICAL SYNDROME OF HEART FAILURE OR HEART FAILURE FOUNDATIONS
8:00 a.m.
Is This HF? Making 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
Grace Lin, MD, MBA
9:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.
Case-Based Approach to Choosing Diagnostic Testing - Discussants: Drs. Mankad, Lin, and Abou Ezzeddine
Moderator: Barry Karon, MD
9:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:20 a.m.
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): 31 Flavors of Opportunity or 50 Shades of Frustration?
Barry Karon, MD
10:45 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:50 a.m.
Amyloid Heart Disease: Not as Rare, and Treatment not as Futile, as We Learned in School!
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. Lin, Dunlay, and Ms. Severson
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
11:45 a.m.
Rapid Fire Heart Failure Cases – Make the Diagnosis
Omar Abou Ezzeddine, MD, MS, Grace Lin, MD, MBA, Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
CO-MORBIDITIES IN HEART FAILURE
1:30 p.m.
Common Dysrhythmias in Patients With Heart Failure **
Pharmacy Content
Fred Kusumoto, MD
1:55 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:00 p.m.
Diabetes: Are These New Drugs Really Cardio Protective?
Pharmacy Content
Maria Collazo-Clavell, MD
2:25 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:30 p.m.
Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure: Picking up the Pieces After SERVE-HF
Eric Olson, MD
2:55 p.m.
Questions and Answers
3:00 p.m.
Cases Studies in Combined Heart and Renal Failure: Nephrologist Approach
Pharmacy Content
Suzanne Norby, MD
3:30 p.m.
Adjourn
7:00 a.m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2019
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:25 a.m.
Welcome and Program Overview
7:30 a.m.
HEART FAILURE TREATMENT
7:30 a.m.
Foundation of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy: ACE Inhibitors, Beta Blockers, Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists, and Digoxin
Pharmacy Content
Alfredo Clavell, MD
8:00 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:05 a.m.
Practical Pearls of Titration
Pharmacy Content
Laurie Bicknese, RN
8:30 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:35 a.m.
What About ARB-Ni? How, Why, and, When to Use
Pharmacy Content
Omar Abou Ezzeddine, MD, MS
9:00 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:05 a.m.
Outpatient Volume Management: Non-Pharmacologic Measures, Diurectics Beyond Furosemide
Pharmacy Content
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
9:30 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:35 a.m.
Implantable Pulmonary Artery Monitor Pressure Measurement Devices
Grace Lin, MD, MBA
10:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:15 a.m.
INPATIENT MANAGEMENT
10:15 a.m.
Parenteral Dosing of Diuretics
Pharmacology Content
Sara Severson, APRN, CNP, MS
10:40 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:45 a.m.
Incorporating Data from Right Heart Catheter (RHC)
Shannon Dunlay, MD, MS
11:10 a.m.
Questions and Answers
11:15 a.m.
Rapid Fire Heart Failure Cases – Cases on Decompensation
Laurie Bicknese, RN, Shannon Dunlay, MD, MS, Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
SPECIAL TOPICS
1:15 p.m.
Pulmonary Bootcamp: Intereting CXR and PFT
Pharmacy Content
Eric Olson, MD
1:40 p.m.
Questions and Answers
1:45 p.m.
Obesity: Update on Bariatric Surgery and New Drug Options
Pharmacy Content
Maria Collazo-Clavell, MD
2:10 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:15 p.m.
Heart Disease in Women
Rekha Mankad, MD
2:45 p.m.
Questions and Answers
3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
7:00 a.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Program Overview
7:30 a.m.
ADVANCED HEART FAILURE
7:35 a.m.
The Other Ventricle: Managing Right-Sided Heart Failure
Pharmacy Content
Garvan Kane, MD, PhD
8:00 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:05 a.m.
Frailty: Assessment, Management, and Implications on Outcomes
Pharmacy Content
Shannon Dunlay, MD, MS
8:30 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:35 a.m.
Cardiac Transplant and LVAD: When to Refer?
Alfredo Clavell, 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
Pharmacy 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 | Panelists: Drs. Clavell, Karon, Lorenz, and Dunlay
Pharmacy Content
Jean Wagner, APRN, CNP
11:35 a.m.
Summary/Closing Comments
12:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Credit Types Offered
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AMA PRA Category 1™16.0
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Nursing16.0
Price: $775 - $850 | Early registration saves $100
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