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FNQ Heart Failure workshop

Posted Wednesday 25 December 2024 | 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.

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