Heart Failure Focus

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Heart Failure Focus is a podcast brought to you by the  American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN).  Each episode is designed to help the busy health care professional breakdown all aspects of heart failure. Each segment is broken down into different topics so you can listen on the go during the course of your day.  The AAHFN is a specialty organization dedicated to advancing nursing education, clinical practice, and research to improve heart failure patient outcomes.

American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)


    • Apr 28, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 27m AVG DURATION
    • 8 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Heart Failure Focus

    Decompensated HF and Diuretic Resistance — Finding success with UltraFiltration

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 26:33


    A review of UltraFiltration as a therapeutic modality to overcome chronically decompensated heart failure in patients who struggle poorly responsive to diuretics. A brief review of pivotal trials as well as discussion of real-world experience with the therapy in a successful advanced heart failure clinic.

    CardioMEMS Legacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 31:35


    Abbott celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the FDA approval of CardioMEMS. On this podcast Chris Bell talks to Rebecca (Beki) Angerstein about the legacy of CardioMEMS. Beki is currently the Manager in Medical Affairs at Abbott. Her clinical background includes managing CV patients at the bedside and in a large cardiology practice for many years. She continues to practice clinically working prn in the hospital. Her passion is heart failure which led her to Abbott where she worked with clinicians on HF research trials.

    Structural heart disease

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2024 27:33


    In this episode of Heart Failure Focus, Chris Bell talks about structural heart disease, specifically mitraclip, and upcoming trials with Kristy Gam, NP, Lead APP for General Cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine in outpatient Interventional/Structural Cardiology.

    HF overview (what's new and what's hot)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2023 25:44


    In this episode of Heart Failure Focus, Chris Bell talks about what's new and hot in heart failure with Midge Bowers, a Clinical Professor and Lead Faculty for the cardiovascular specialty at Duke University School of Nursing. They review the “4 Pillar” therapy for HFrEF as well as discuss the emerging phenotypes of HFpEF.

    HF Devices and Remote Monitoring: Past, Present, and Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2022 36:54


    Brief discussion with Dr. Phil Adamson, Divisional VP & CMO for the Heart Failure Division at Abbott , and longtime support of AAHFN. Listen as he discusses the role of device therapy & remote monitoring in heart failure from a personal and corporate perspective.

    NYHA Study

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2022 23:27


    This podcast discusses the importance of being accurate with NYHA Functional Classification as well as the current study that is focused on NYHA classification.

    Diagnostic work up of Cardiac Amyloidosis

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 25:44


    This podcast will provide an overview of the steps and diagnostic studies that should be ordered on a patient with suspected Amyloidosis. 

    Amyloidosis: Red Flags and symptoms

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 18:52


    This podcast will describe the signs and symptoms that are common in Amyloidosis and will help the clinician pull together the pertinent factors, besides the well known low voltage EKG 

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