An Update on Heart Failure Management: From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance

Overview:

The global burden of heart failure is only increasing and inpatient work up and management of heart failure has changed over the last several years. Goal directed medical therapies have continued to improve and robust evidence of their benefit with expedited initiation has changed treatment paradigms. In addition, newer device therapies with proven benefit in this fragile patient population have changed the trajectory and outcomes of patients with heart failure, warranting an update on treatment best practices.

Objectives:

• Define the different types of heart failure in HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
• Discuss the varied clinical presentations, sign and symptoms of HFrEF and HFpEF
• Review the backbone of treatment for both kinds of heart failure and targeted pathophysiology
• Review the alarm symptoms in patients with heart failure

Presenter:

M. Imran Aslam, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Interventional / Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology
UT Health San Antonio

Financial Disclosures:

M. Imran Aslam, MD, FACC has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, Yun Shi, MD, Mark Nadeau, MD, Marcy Wiemers, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD, Margaret Finley, MD, Richel Avery, MD, Lauren Fuller, MD, and Nichole Rubio) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu