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FNQ Heart Failure workshop
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Friday 15 November 2024
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Northern Queensland Primary Health Network
Join the Cairns and Hinterland Heart Failure Service and Northern Queensland Primary Health Network for a free, full day workshop of learning and discussion.
Topics
- Latest treatment updates in the management of heart failure.
- Titration of heart failure medications.
- Multidisciplinary health care services available for heart failure.
- Cardiac implantable electronic devices in heart failure.
Presenters
- Electrophysiologist and Heart Failure Lead Dr Kevin Ng MBChB, MRCP (UK), FRACP, FHRS.
- Cardiologist Dr Steven Sutcliffe MBChB, FRCP, FRACP.
- Heart Failure Nurse Practitioner Leah Felstead.
- Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Kim Osmond.
- Palliative Medicine Physician Dr Sophia Lam FRACP, FAChPM.
- Cairns Hospital Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Team.
Learning outcomes
- Identify recent evidence-based changes to international consensus guidelines.
- Determine the appropriate management of heart failure symptoms and disease modification.
- Integrate lifestyle and psychosocial factors in a multidisciplinary approach.
- Identify cardiac conditioning and its importance in quality-of-life improvement.