Featured Courses
Hyperkalaemia in Cardiorenal Disease – A Case Based Discussion
- Not accredited
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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
Examining a Complex Heart Failure Case
- 1.00
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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
CVD and Type 2 Diabetes: Navigating Therapeutic Boundaries in GLP-1 RA Use
- 2.00
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Learning objectives
- Describe the burden of ASCVD in type 2 diabetes
- Assign risk of future CV events to individuals with type 2 diabetes
- Identify appropriate patients for GLP-1 RA therapy based on clinical trial outcome data to reduce ASCVD risk
- Recall trial data of anti-diabetes medications that reduce ASCVD risk
- Recall the pleiotropic effects of GLP-1 RAs and how these may impact CV outcomes
- Describe how early adoption of anti-diabetes therapies with proven CV benefit can positively influence QOL
- Adopt anti-diabetic therapies with proven ASCVD benefit
Individualising Antithrombotic Strategies for Established CAD
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Summarise current guidance for choosing antithrombotic therapy in established CAD
- Describe current gaps in clinical evidence and what is missing from current guidance
- Adopt an evidence-based approach for managing patients with ACS and CCS
HCM in Review: Highlights of 2022
- 0.25
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Learning objectives
- Recall the efficacy and safety of existing HCM treatments
- Summarise results from ongoing trials with experimental treatments
Incorporating GDMT and PRO Endpoints for Personalised HF Management
- 1.00
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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
Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair: An Assessment of its Long-term Impact on Mitral Regurgitation
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Recall the long-term outcomes of TEER from real-world and RCT data
- Apply the results of real-world data to both simple and complex patients
- Describe how TEER is being used to benefit a range of patients with MR
HCM in Review: Assessing SCD Risk in HCM & Managing HCM With High Risk SCD
- 0.50
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Learning objectives
- Recall risk factors associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD)
- Recall best practice approaches to prevent SCD according to guidelines and expert insight
- Stratify patients likely to benefit from invasive procedures versus pharmacological treatment
Changing Paradigms in Therapy to Unmet Needs
- 1.00
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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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Advances in Imaging: Optimising MR and CT in Daily Practice
- 2.00
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Learning objectives
- Interpret existing clinical and meta data for use of pre-procedural, image-aided ablation in ventricular arrhythmias
- Identify where pre-procedural imaging may complement the current ablation workflow in ventricular arrhythmias
- Recall the clinical benefits of quantitative, MRI-based approaches to evaluate ischaemia
- Apply quantitative CMR imaging to complement existing procedural workflows in revascularisation procedures
CVD and Type 2 Diabetes: Navigating Therapeutic Boundaries in GLP-1 RA Use
- 2.00
Published:
Learning objectives
- Describe the burden of ASCVD in type 2 diabetes
- Assign risk of future CV events to individuals with type 2 diabetes
- Identify appropriate patients for GLP-1 RA therapy based on clinical trial outcome data to reduce ASCVD risk
- Recall trial data of anti-diabetes medications that reduce ASCVD risk
- Recall the pleiotropic effects of GLP-1 RAs and how these may impact CV outcomes
- Describe how early adoption of anti-diabetes therapies with proven CV benefit can positively influence QOL
- Adopt anti-diabetic therapies with proven ASCVD benefit
Examining a Complex Heart Failure Case
- 1.00
Published:
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
Getting it Right First Time in Severe Aortic Stenosis - Key insights for Long Term Success
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Recall current and predicted trends in TAVI with respect to preserving coronary access
- Consider determining factors for choosing valves in low risk populations
- Discuss solutions for maximising valve durability and haemodynamics and for treating degenerated TAVI
Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy: Highlights 2019-2021
- 0.25
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Learning objectives
- Recall the efficacy and safety of existing HCM treatments
- Summarize results from ongoing trials with experimental treatments for HFrEF and HCM
Heart Failure Management in a Changing Paradigm
- 1.00
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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
HFO 2022 - Session 1.2 Practical Theory & Hot Topics: The Complex Patient
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Select foundational and advanced management strategies in complex patients
- Discuss the validity of using ejection fraction to determine optimal treatment strategies
- Assess the likely impact of health technology on future practice
- Identify the underlying causes of heart failure
- Select appropriate interventional and device-based treatments for treating underlying causes of heart failure
- Assess the impact of the multidisciplinary team on heart failure outcomes
- Discuss the importance of using quality of life and patient self-assessed measures relative to hard clinical end points
HFO 2022 - Session 1.4 Practical Theory & Hot Topics: Transitioning Care and Monitoring Technology
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Select foundational and advanced management strategies in complex patients
- Discuss the validity of using ejection fraction to determine optimal treatment strategies
- Assess the likely impact of health technology on future practice
- Identify the underlying causes of heart failure
- Select appropriate interventional and device-based treatments for treating underlying causes of heart failure
- Assess the impact of the multidisciplinary team on heart failure outcomes
- Discuss the importance of using quality of life and patient self-assessed measures relative to hard clinical end points
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Hybrid Ablation – AF and Beyond
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Identify arrhythmias other than atrial fibrillation that may benefit from hybrid ablation
- Summarise the existing evidence base for hybrid ablation in IST, POTS and Brugada Syndrome
- Identify patients who may benefit from a hybrid ablation approach
- Recall existing RCT and real-world evidence supporting the use of hybrid ablation in AF
TIO 2023 – Symposium: Lifetime Patient Management Greater Expectations: Is TAVI Rising to The Challenge?
- 1.00
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Learning objectives
- Recall the latest data on durability and clinical outcomes for TAVI
- Understand how TAVI is advancing and become aware of future treatment options for lifetime management of patients with aortic valve disease
- Become more confident using TAVI in cases with complex anatomy