• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  In this podcast-style discussion, Mike Corvino, PharmD, and Cole Swanson, PharmD, explore the latest management strategies for heart failure, a complex and progressive condition impacting millions worldwide. Heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization and morbidity, often resulting from ischemic heart disease, hypertension, or other cardiovascular disorders. Proper diagnosis, staging, and treatment are critical in improving patient outcomes and quality of life. This session provides pharmacists and nurses with insights into current guidelines and therapeutic advances, including medications like SGLT2 inhibitors, and comprehensive care plans. The discussion emphasizes patient-centered approaches that integrate lifestyle changes, risk mitigation, and multidisciplinary care strategies to optimize heart failure management in clinical practice.

  Access the original podcast here.

   

  
  

  Handouts

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacist

  Compare and contrast the efficacy, safety profiles, and appropriate use of heart failure medications and lifestyle modifications

  Define the clinical presentations, classifications, and underlying pathophysiology of heart failure

  Cite current guidelines and evidence-based treatment strategies for managing heart failure, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions

  Nurse

  Cite current guidelines and evidence-based treatment strategies for managing heart failure, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions

  Compare and contrast the efficacy, safety profiles, and appropriate use of heart failure medications and lifestyle modifications

  Define the clinical presentations, classifications, and underlying pathophysiology of heart failure

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Knowledge

  CE Broker

  20-1277558

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacist 0798-0000-25-061-H01-P
  Nurse 0798-0000-25-061-H01-N
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Coleman  Swanson, PharmD, CDCES Clinical Pharmacist - Neurology, MUSC Specialty Pharmacy Department

  Michael  Corvino, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, CDCES Clinical Pharmacist, Fetter Health Care Network

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