Heart Failure Focus
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.
- Update frequency
- every 186 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) — Getting more out of a failing heart
Chris bell interviews Michael Arnold DNP, FHRS, about what is new in CCM therapy and when GDMT is not enough.
The Power of Remote PA Pressure Monitoring: Advancing Heart Failure Care with the CardioMEMS HF System
Join us for a conversation with a heart failure nurse leader who’s been at the forefront of remote monitoring. In this episode, we explore the clinical value of CardioMEMS in managing heart failure, …
Decompensated HF and Diuretic Resistance — Finding success with UltraFiltration
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 …
CardioMEMS Legacy
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 Manage…
Structural heart disease
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 Univer…
HF overview (what's new and what's hot)
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 Un…
HF Devices and Remote Monitoring: Past, Present, and Future
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 monitor…
NYHA Study
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
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
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