Management of heart failure – optimizing the team approach

Thursday 9 December 2021, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Learning outcomes:

• Identify the diagnostic workup of a patient with heart failure and how it is best applied in a rural setting.
• Recognize the need and implement strategies to initiate and up-titrate medications for the treatment of heart failure to optimize patient outcomes.
• Learn how a multidisciplinary team approach may assist in the care of patients to achieve safe heart failure hospital discharge and primary care management planning.

Presented by:

• Dr Majo Joseph, Consultant Cardiologist Flinders Hospital & Mt Gambier, Director of Echocardiography for the Southern Area Local Health Network
• Professor Debra Rowett DATIS (Drug and Therapeutics Information Service)
• Brian Simmons, Educational Visitor DATIS (Drug and Therapeutics Information Service)