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Hyperkalaemia in Cardiorenal Disease – A Case Based Discussion
  • Not accredited

Learning objectives

  • Explain the relationship between sub-optimal RAASi therapy and poor cardio-renal outcomes
  • Identify patients who would benefit from anti-hyperkalaemia medications
  • Select appropriate anti-hyperkalaemia treatments across a range of patient profiles
  • Adopt anti-hyperkalaemia medications as an approach to prolong optimal RAASi therapy
  • Summarise current guideline recommendations on the use of potassium binding agents
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Examining a Complex Heart Failure Case
  • 1.00 EBAC

Learning objectives

  • Identify individuals likely to have HFpEF from initial presentation
  • Refer suspected individuals for specialist assessment
  • Initiate GDMT for HF as soon as patients are stable 
  • Initiate GDMT in HF regardless of EF and phenotype
  • Initiate shared decision-making on complex HF patients with other members of the multidisciplinary team including cardiologists, GPs, nephrologists and diabetologists
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Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Getting It Right First Time
  • 1.00 EBAC

Learning objectives

  • Recall the general approach to diagnosis and stratification of HCM according to the latest guidelines and expert opinion
  • Apply advanced echocardiographic methodologies to equivocal HCM diagnoses
  • Select appropriate imaging modalities to facilitate accurate risk stratification
  • Stratify patients based on specific risk features and disease severity
  • Choose suitable treatment modalities for patients based on specific disease features and severity
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Incorporating GDMT and PRO Endpoints for Personalised HF Management
  • 1.00 EBAC

Learning objectives

  • Review current GDMT in HFrEF and HFpEF
  • Describe the relationship between initiation of GDMT and HF outcomes
  • Prescribe GDMT according to current international recommendations
  • Recall the elements of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire
  • Describe the clinical studies that support the use of functional and QoL measures in practice
  • Initiate quality of life and functional improvement measures in routine practice
  • Initiate SGLT-2 inhibitors in patients presenting with De novo HF and in patients already on other GDMT
  • Adopt shared decision-making with HF patients
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Changing Paradigms in Therapy to Unmet Needs
  • 1.00 EBAC

Learning objectives

  • Recall the utility of EF in heart failure treatment, patient selection and treatment response 
  • Identify alternative measures to EF for the purposes HF severity and therapeutic efficacy 
  • Incorporate quality of life measures for assessing therapeutic efficacy in HF 
  • Recall outcomes from heart failure trials from recent congress and publications and their impact on practice 
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SGLT-2 Inhibitors - Another Piece of the Puzzle in Heart Failure
  • 1.00 EBAC

Learning objectives

  • Recall the results of key trials in HFmrEF in different patients' sub-groups
  • Describe how SGLT-2 inhibitors can be used across the range of LVEF
  • Apply emerging diagnostic approaches for HFpEF and HFmrEF
  • Implement best-practice strategies across the range of LVEF
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