Barb Bancroft’s Clinical Topics for Faculty, Nurses and Students Heart Failure: It’s Complicated!

8:50 AM –1:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

Chronic heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The top three causes of heart failure today are long-standing type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, coronary artery disease, and old age. Join Barb for a comprehensive overview of all of the causes of heart failure in young and old patients, how COVID-19 affects the heart, the new terms used for heart failure (HFrRF, HFpRF, HFmrRF), the pathophysiology of heart failure followed by the signs and symptoms, interpretation of the NT-BNP and or the BNP, and the treatment of heart failure as well as the ways we can prevent readmission to the hospital in heart failure patients (and make Medicare happy).