Learning objectives
After completing this module, participants should be better able to:
- Differentiate the symptoms and signs of heart failure
- Assess symptom severity
- Discern the differences in acute and chronic presentations of heart failure
- Approach the diagnosis of heart failure according to the latest guidelines, with specific focus on natriuretic peptide testing and echocardiography
- Understand the use of objective measures of functional and exercise capacity testing
- Understand the indications for imaging and interpret the findings in the context of the individual patient
- Develop an approach to the investigation of both acute and chronic presentations of heart failure and determine the aetiology or precipitant thereof
- Differentiate between the different types of heart failure, especially according to ejection fraction
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 Kaushik Guha, Clinical Cardiology Research Fellow, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Professor Theresa McDonagh, Consultant Cardiologist, King”s College Hospital, London
Dr Susan Piper, King”s College Hospital, London
Dr Henry Savage, Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Dr Benoy Shah, Research Fellow in Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Accreditation
2 CPD/CME credits, 2 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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