Heart Failure Management for NP, PA, and Primary Care Providers
March 26-28, 2020
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL
Course Cancelled
Program
12:00 a.m.
Thursday, March 26
7:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45 a.m.
Welcome and Program Overview—Pretest
8:00 a.m.
The Clinical Syndrome of Heart Failure or Heart Failure Foundations
8:00 a.m.
Is This (Congestive) HF? Making the Clinical Diagnosis
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
8:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:00 a.m.
How to Use Exercise / O2 Treadmill in Heart Failure Assessment
9:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break
9:50 a.m.
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
10:15 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:20 a.m.
Amyloid Heart Disease: New Horizons and Treatment
Pharmacologic Content
10:45 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:50 a.m.
How We Discuss the Disease Trajectory With Our Patients?
11:15 a.m.
Editorial Pearls on Discussing Disease Trajectory
11:30 a.m.
Choosing Diagnostic Testing: Point - Counterpoint - Discussants: Drs. Miller, Borgeson, Anavekar, and Lloyd
11:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
12:00 p.m.
Pulmonary Bootcamp: Interpreting CXR and PFT
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Comorbidities in Heart Failure
1:30 p.m.
Common Dysrhythmias in Patients With Heart Failure
Pharmacologic Content
1:55 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:00 p.m.
Lipids
Pharmacological Content
2:25 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:30 p.m.
Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure: What’s New?
2:55 p.m.
Questions and Answers
3:00 p.m.
Combine Heart & Renal Failure: Nephrologist Approach
Pharmacologic Content
3:30 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
Friday, March 27
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.
Setting Up a Heart Failure Clinic
Pharmacology Content
8:00 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:05 a.m.
Foundation of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy: ACE Inhibitors, Beta Blockers, Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists, and Digoxin
8:30 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:35 a.m.
What About ARB-Ni? How, Why, and When to Use
Pharmacologic Content
9:00 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:05 a.m.
Outpatient Volume Management: Non-Pharmacologic Measures, Diuretics Beyond Furosemide
Pharmacologic Content
9:30 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:35 a.m.
Implantable Pulmonary Artery Monitor Pressure Measurement Devices
10:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:15 a.m.
Inpatient Management
10:15 a.m.
Parenteral Dosing of Diuretics
Pharmacologic Content
10:40 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:45 a.m.
Incorporating Data From Right Heart Catheter (RHC)
11:10 a.m.
Questions and Answers
11:15 a.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: What We Missed / Why Decompensating
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
Special Topics
1:15 p.m.
Skeletons in the Closet: Diagnostic Perils
Pharmacologic Content
1:45 p.m.
Fast Facts: Anticoagulation – Old, New, and Cool
Pharmacologic Content
2:10 p.m.
Questions and Answers
2:15 p.m.
Novel Interventions for Valve Disease
2:45 p.m.
Questions and Answers
3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
12:00 a.m.
Saturday, March 28
7:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
7:25 a.m.
Welcome and Program Overview
7:30 a.m.
Advanced Heart Failure
7:30 a.m.
The Other Ventricle: Managing Right-Sided Heart Failure
Pharmacologic Content
7:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:00 a.m.
Frailty: Assessment, Management, and Implications on Outcomes
Pharmacologic Content
8:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
8:30 a.m.
Palette of Devices for Temporary Mechanical Support
8:55 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:00 a.m.
Cardiac Transplant and LVAD: When to Refer?
9:25 a.m.
Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break
9:45 a.m.
Symptom Management in Advanced Heart Failure
Pharmacologic Content
10:15 a.m.
Questions and Answers
10:20 a.m.
Education Post Test
10:30 a.m.
Illustrative Cases in Advanced Heart Failure - Drs. Frantz, Borgeson, and Lorenz
Pharmacologic Content
11:35 a.m.
Summary/Closing Remarks
11:45 a.m.
Adjourn
Credit Types Offered
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AMA PRA Category 1™16.75
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Nursing16.75
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