Session Objectives

Device Therapy for Heart

• Discuss device therapy options for heart failure patients Identify appropriate candidates for advanced heart failure therapies

Remote Heart Failure Monitoring

• Discuss application of Remote Heart Failure Monitoring
• Describe how it is used to identify and manage our heart failure patients.

Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs)

• Describe current left ventricular assist device technologies Identify the patients most likely to benefit from

LVAD Cardiac Amyloidosis

• Describe current treatment and management modalities for cardiac amyloidosis

MitraClip Case

• Discuss the impact of percutaneous mitral valve repair on symptoms in patients with severe mitral regurgitations who cannot undergo surgery
• Describe the impact of percutaneous mitral valve repair on mortality for this patient population

Pre-op Evaluation

• Identify patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease and other cardiac diseases who are at risk of cardiac complications during non-cardiac surgery.
• Discuss appropriate noninvasive tests for patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease prior to non-cardiac surgery.
• Apply perioperative medical therapies to reduce risk of cardiac complications of non-cardiac surgery.

Work up for Syncope

• Apply evaluation and treatment strategies for syncope Identify which syncope patients to refer to cardiology

Cryptogenic Stroke

• Describe and outline the cardiac evaluation for cryptogenic stroke

Pharmaceuticals and CV Impact

• Discuss medications and their potential risk to the cardiovascular system

Applying Lifestyle Medicine in Clinical Practice

• Translate and apply medical research into practical guidelines.