ILOs
- review the pathophysiology of heart failure
- recognise the clinical presentations of heart failure
- discuss the mechanisms of actions of drugs used to treat heart failure
- outline the evidence of benefit of drug treatments for heart failure
- discuss non-pharmacological treatments for heart failure
- What is heart failure?
- What is the characteristic pathophysiology of heart failure?
- How does heart failure present clinically?
- Outline the epidemiology of heart failure…
- List the most common causes of heart failure in the UK…
- And, give some less common causes of heart failure in the UK…
- Outline terms we use to define heart failure, and what the differences are…
- Explain the pathophysiology of heart failure…
- Describe the signs and symptoms of heart failure…
- Here’s the NYHA functional classification of heart failure…
- What investigations do we carry out for heart failure?
- Outline the diagnostic algorithm for heart failure…
- List some additional investigations for heart failure patients…