For professionals: Heart failure tools and resources

This NPS MedicineWise webinar, developed in collaboration with the Heart Foundation, explores how a team approach remains central to improving the lives of people living with heart failure. This webinar covers pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies for heart failure management, including initiation and up-titration of heart failure medicines, the role of home-medicines reviews and patient action-plans.

Duration: 1 hour

Recording year: 2020  

Audience: GPs, GP registrars, nurses and pharmacists

Speakers: Melissa Chapman, Associate Professor Ralph Audehm, Professor Andrea Driscoll, Dale Richardson, Grace Castro.

Learning objectives:

• Develop an evidence-based treatment plan including pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies to improve the care of people with heart failure
• Describe the roles of a GP, nurse practitioner and pharmacist as part of a multidisciplinary team caring for people with heart failure
• Identify when to refer people with heart failure to a cardiologist and support services to reduce heart failure hospitalisations

This NPS MedicineWise webinar, developed in collaboration with the Heart Foundation, explores the important role echocardiography plays in the diagnosis and classification of heart failure. The webinar aims to enhance GP awareness of the importance of echocardiogram referral and increase confidence in interpreting and acting on findings when developing a management plan.

Duration: 1 hour

Recording year: 2021

Audience: GPs, GP registrars

Speakers: Dr Jill Thistlethwaite, Dr Jennifer Coller, Associate Professor Ralph Audehm, Dr Peter Piazza

Learning objectives:

• Describe why an echocardiogram is the most important investigation to confirm the diagnosis and classification of heart failure and to guide management.
• Demonstrate improved ability and confidence in referring, interpreting and developing a management plan for patients with heart failure in response to echocardiogram findings.
• Identify when referral to a cardiologist and multidisciplinary heart failure disease management program is advisable to reduce heart failure hospitalisations.

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Recorded for the 2020 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) conference (GP20), this webinar discusses the diagnosis and management of heart failure and highlights key practice points and common clinical challenges arising in general practice. 

Duration: 45 minutes 

Recording year: 2020 

Audience: GPs, GP registrars 

Speakers: Associate Professor Ralph Audehm, Dr Atef Asham, Ms Brooke Atkins 

Learning objectives: 

• To understand the main recommendations in the National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand 2018 Australian guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of heart failure as relevant to general practice. 
• Describe evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and classification of heart failure patients. 
• Explain the pharmacological management of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) including up-titration to achieve target doses. 
• Summarise the non-pharmacological management of chronic heart failure and relevant comorbidities. 

This webinar discusses the Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of heart failure in Australia 2018, developed by the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. 

Duration: 1 hour 

Recording year: 2018 

Audience: Health professionals caring for people with heart failure  

Speakers: Associate Professor John Atherton, Associate Professor Ralph Audehm, Associate Professor Ingrid Hopper 

Learning objectives: 

• Implement the latest clinical guidelines for heart failure, including prevention, detection and management. 
• Apply the clinical guidelines in practice using a case study. 

The full presentation and summary presentations of the guidelines are available below for download and can be used to present to your colleagues or work departments. 

The 2018 heart failure guidelines – summary presentation  

This presentation provides a summary of the key recommendations from the 2018 heart failure guidelines. 

Length: 49 slides 
Duration: Approximately 30 minutes (presentation time).  

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The 2018 heart failure guidelines – full presentation

This comprehensive presentation covers all the recommendations from the 2018 heart failure guidelines. It contains a full description of the process used to develop the guidelines.  

Length: 83 slides 
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes (presentation time).  

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