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Northern Arizona Heart Consultants
2nd Annual Cardiology Update
Heart Failure... Medical Management
August 7, 2004

Frances Stier, MSN,ANP,ACNP;
Nurse Practitioner,
Northern Arizona Heart Center; Show Low AZ

Materials from Fran's presentation:

• Objectives: At the end of the presentation, the speaker hopes that the participants will be able to:
  
  1. Describe the new staging of Heart Failure.
  2. Describe the pharmaceutical management of heart failure including titration and management of therapy complications.
  3. Discuss the expanding role of natriuretic peptides in the management of heart failure.
  4. Discuss the role of the CHF clinic.
  
    Case Studies will be used throughout the presentation to facilitate application of the information.
   
• Outline:
  
  1. Staging of Heart Failure
        Etiology of failure
  2. Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
  3. Pharmaceutical Management.
  4. Management of adverse therapy outcomes.
  5. CHF clinic
  
   
• Slide presentation* (2.4Mb - 13 min @ 28.8Kbps)

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