6 episodes
Heart Failure Focus American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)
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- Health & Fitness
Heart Failure Focus is a podcast brought to you by the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN). Each episode is designed to help the busy health care professional breakdown all aspects of heart failure. Each segment is broken down into different topics so you can listen on the go during the course of your day. The AAHFN is a specialty organization dedicated to advancing nursing education, clinical practice, and research to improve heart failure patient outcomes.
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Structural heart disease
In this episode of Heart Failure Focus, Chris Bell talks about structural heart disease, specifically mitraclip, and upcoming trials with Kristy Gam, NP, Lead APP for General Cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine in outpatient Interventional/Structural Cardiology.
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HF overview (what's new and what's hot)
In this episode of Heart Failure Focus, Chris Bell talks about what's new and hot in heart failure with Midge Bowers, a Clinical Professor and Lead Faculty for the cardiovascular specialty at Duke University School of Nursing. They review the “4 Pillar” therapy for HFrEF as well as discuss the emerging phenotypes of HFpEF.
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HF Devices and Remote Monitoring: Past, Present, and Future
Brief discussion with Dr. Phil Adamson, Divisional VP & CMO for the Heart Failure Division at Abbott , and longtime support of AAHFN.
Listen as he discusses the role of device therapy & remote monitoring in heart failure from a personal and corporate perspective. -
NYHA Study
This podcast discusses the importance of being accurate with NYHA Functional Classification as well as the current study that is focused on NYHA classification.
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Diagnostic work up of Cardiac Amyloidosis
This podcast will provide an overview of the steps and diagnostic studies that should be ordered on a patient with suspected Amyloidosis.
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Amyloidosis: Red Flags and symptoms
This podcast will describe the signs and symptoms that are common in Amyloidosis and will help the clinician pull together the pertinent factors, besides the well known low voltage EKG