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Digital Seminar

Prescribing Heart Failure Medications: The Latest Updates for Life-Saving Clinical Decisions


Speaker:
Stacie Ward-Santangelo, RN, MS, APN, CHFN, CCNS
Duration:
2 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 20, 2022
Product Code:
POS078449
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Heart Failure is a complex clinical syndrome. The heart failure diagnosis alone can scare even the most adept and proficient providers.  It is not uncommon to feel as though we don’t want to change the medications for fear of causing harm.

Years of research and collaboration amongst the most respected experts in the heart failure field have proven that neurohormonal dysregulation is what causes the decline of patients with heart failure. When it comes to the medicinal management of heart failure, utilizing guideline directed medical therapy appropriately is misunderstood. It is not merely a pump problem but rather a brain and pump problem. The indications, patient education, up-titration, vital sign parameters, and adjuvant therapies are very specific to the pathology of the failing heart. 

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Speaker

Stacie Ward-Santangelo, RN, MS, APN, CHFN, CCNS's Profile

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Stacie R. Ward-Santangelo, RN, MS, APN, CHFN, CCNS, works as an advanced practice nurse in cardiology and heart failure with Community Physicians. Additionally, she is charged with working with various facilities, and her esteemed colleagues, developing ‘skilled heart units’ in nursing and rehab facilities across the Chicagoland area.

Stacie is board-certified in advanced heart failure and cardiology. She has extensive experience working in respected and growing cardiac programs in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. She is responsible for the program development of cardiac transplantation and mechanical support programs, which are successful and viable today.

Stacie had received many awards and honors during her career. She received Nurse of the Year at University of Chicago, Volunteer of the Year for the American Heart Association, “Stand Out Amongst Your Peers” award from Abbott for her work in cardiovascular research, Patient Satisfaction Award for consistently being in the 99th percentile for patient satisfaction at Northwestern Medicine, and most recently, elected to be on a national committee “ Thought Leaders Forum” for research in advanced heart failure. She publicly speaks at national and local meetings.

Stacie is considered an expert amongst her peers and physicians colleagues alike in general cardiology, advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac transplantation. She is highly motivated and has a keen interest in research, guideline-directed therapies, and the education of practitioners, students, and patients/families.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stacie Ward-Santangelo has employment relationships with Community Physicians, Saint Xavier University, and Healthcare Consultants, LTD. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stacie Ward-Santangelo has no relevant non-financial relationships.


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Objectives

  1. Analyze neurohormonal dysregulation as the primary trigger for worsening heart failure. 
  2. Differentiate the indications for GDMT in heart failure vs. other cardiovascular comorbidities.  
  3. Determine how to concomitantly use available resources to optimize heart failure management. 
  4. Plan how to prescribe and up-titrate heart failure medications based on clinical criteria. 
  5. Appraise the effectiveness of prescribed therapies. 

Outline

Neurohormonal Dysregulation 

  • What is really causing the failure 
  • RAAS  
  • Shutting it down 

Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT)  

  • The VIM’s:  Beta adrenergic blockers  
  • The VIM’s:  ACEi/ ARB’s 
  • The VIM’s:  Where’s ALDO? 
  • The VIM’s:  The new player:  ARNI 
  • The VIM’s: SGLT2 inhibition 

What do they each do? 

  • Critical importance of appropriate integration 
  • Tips and tricks for patient tolerance 
  • Monitoring 

The VIM’s:  Stay in the Loop with Diuretics 

  • Do HF patients ALWAYs need diuretics? 
  • Subclasses of diuretics to consider 
  • Thiazides and thiazide-like diuretics 
  • Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors 
  • Potassium-sparing diuretics 
  • Osmotic diuretics 

Non-Pharmacologic Interventions for Heart Failure Management 

  • Electrophysiology involvement 
    • ICD’s 
    • Pacemakers 
    • BiV-ICD 
  • PA pressure system 
    • Using monitoring to up-titrate GDMT 
  • Social media as patient support 
  • Support groups for patients with heart failure 

Treatment Options   

  • Referral to HF specialist 
  • Treating the cause 
  • LVAD 
  • Cardiac transplantation

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Pharmacists
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants

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