About this event

  • Date and time Fri 1 Mar 2024 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Cardiology

Join us for this webinar for an in-depth overview of advanced heart failure management, from palliative care to cardiac transplantation, delivered by leaders in the field from centres across the UK.

This virtual event aims to enable the interpretation of CPEX and RHC data, develop an understanding of the challenges of providing heart failure palliative care in the community, provide an overview of the recognition of advanced heart failure, cardiogenic shock management, from inotropes to mechanical support, the indication and management of long-term, LVAD mechanical support for advanced heart failure and the indications and patient eligibility for cardiac transplantation.

By attending this webinar, you will learn:

  • The recognition and investigation of advanced heart failure
  • The management of cardiogenic shock
  • The indication for advanced heart failure therapies

This webinar is available for on-demand viewing. The webinar recording will be available for registered delegates up to 60 days after the live webinar broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place. 

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Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Dr Laura-Ann McGill, Consultant Cardiologist, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Nina Karia, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Free Hospital 

Recognition and classification of advanced heart failure

Dr Andy Morley-Smith, Transplant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital 

Investigation of advanced heart failure: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and right heart catheterization interpretation

Dr Veronica Baston, Consultant Transplant and Interventional Cardiologist, Golden Jubilee University National Hospital, Glasgow 

Delivering effective palliative care in heart failure

Dr Philippa Guppy, Palliative Care Specialty Registrar, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Comfort break
Management of acute cardiogenic shock: Inotropes to extra corporeal membrane oxygenation

Dr Nicolas Barrett, Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust 

Left ventricular assist devices in advanced heart failure

Dr Fernando Riesgo Gil, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital 

Cardiac transplantation

Dr Adam McDiarmid, Consultant Cardiac Transplant Physician, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Closing remarks

Dr Laura-Ann McGill and Dr Nina Karia  

Close of meeting

Location

Online

Disclaimers:

Registrations for this webinar will 1 hour before the start time. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time  

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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