Learning objectives
Upon completing this module, participants should be better able to understand:
- The epidemiology of heart failure
- The burden of heart failure including its cost and findings from the National Heart Failure Audit
- The aetiology, precipitants and comorbidities of heart failure
- The various classifications of heart failure
- The syndromes and pathophysiology of heart failure
Faculty
Dr Joe Cuthbert, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Senior Lecturer in Cardiology, Hull York Medical School.
In association with Professor Andrew Clark, Chair in Clinical Cardiology, Hull York Medical School
Original faculty
Professor Andrew Clark, Chair in Clinical Cardiology, Hull York Medical School
Dr Henry Savage, Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Accreditation
1.5 CPD/CME credit, 1.5 hours
BJC Learning has assigned one and a half hours of CPD/CME credit to this module
Endorsed by:
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British Society for Heart Failure www.bsh.org.uk
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