What you'll learn in this expert session
Heart failure is a common condition and one which nurses are increasingly expected to address in the primary care setting. In this talk, Prof Andrew Sindone AM will provide an update on heart failure treatment and assessment. In addition, Prof Sindone will outline the most appropriate pharmacotherapeutic and non-pharmacotherapeutic care of this condition including which drugs should be administered, how these patients should be monitored and importantly which patients should be referred on.
About the Expert
Prof Andrew Sindone AM
Prof Andrew Sindone B. Med (hons), MD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FNHFA is Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Concord Hospital and Head of Department of Cardiology at Ryde Hospital. He runs the Concord Hospital Heart Failure Clinic, research, rehabilitation and outreach programs. He has been Principal Investigator in 50 international, multi-centre, clinical trials and authored over 100 articles. He is a Co-Chairman of the NSW Cardiovascular Expert Reference Group, Fellow of the Heart Foundation of Australia and is co-author of the Australian and the Asia Pacific Heart Failure Guidelines.
