For the Certification Examination in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology:
1. Identify gaps in knowledge about advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology2. Focus study efforts on filling identified knowledge gaps3. Practice for the certification examination with ABIM-style multiple-choice test questionsFor Clinical Practice:1. Describe the epidemiology of heart failure, including environmental factors, and implement strategies for the prevention of heart failure2. Describe the pathophysiology of heart failure, including normal physiology and compensatory and maladaptive mechanisms3. Assess and follow the patient with acute or advanced heart failure, using non-invasive and invasive tests and biomarkers4. Implement guideline-based therapy for patients with chronic heart failure, including pharmacologic agents; non-pharmacologic options, such as diet and exercise; and implantable devices5. Implement appropriate care strategies for patients undergoing chemotherapy or with pulmonary hypertension, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or cardiorenal syndrome6. Manage comorbidities in patients with chronic heart failure, including sleep disordered breathing, anemia, and depression7. Implement strategies for effective disease management of the patient with advanced heart failure, including palliative care and transition to outpatient care8. Provide peri-operative management of heart failure patients undergoing cardiac transplantation or implantation of a mechanical circulatory device
Note: Program also includes the recorded welcoming remarks for each meeting day, live questions and answer segments, and end of day Q&A Faculty Panels.
Heart Failure Fundamentals
Cardiac Transplantation
Q&A Faculty Panel I
Key Issues in HF Management
Specific Heart Failure Syndromes
Q&A Faculty Panel II
Shock/MCS
Special Topics in HF
Q&A Faculty Panel III