Update your management of heart failure (HF) with expert tips from Cardiologist Dr. Eric Adler, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at UC San Diego. We cover how to use BNP, a simple way to examine jugular venous distention, medical therapy for heart failure, the PARADIGM-HF trial, and how to use sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto).

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Time Stamps

00:00 Intro

04:25 Rapid fire questions

06:00 Palliative care and heart failure

08:40 Book recommendation

10:20 Advice for teachers and learners

12:27 Clinical case of HF

13:38 Classification and staging of HF

17:07 Discussion of BNP

19:35 How to perform neck vein exam for JVD

21:20 BNP for prognosis

23:00 BNP at hospital discharge

26:36 Factors that affect BNP

27:25 Initial patient counseling

32:35 Exercise in HF

34:00 Additional testing at time of diagnosis

36:28 Initial medical therapy

38:30 Discussion of diuretics and dosing

42:50 Aldosterone antagonists

44:30 PARADIGM-HF and entresto

51:27 Medications to avoid in HF

54:14 Digoxin

57:30 Dr. Adler’s take home points

59:11 Stuart questions dosing conventions

60:48 Outro

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#45: Heart failure: update and guidelines review

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