FNQ Heart Failure workshop

Posted Saturday 23 November 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.