Course Heart failure diagnosis: An essential guide for medical professionals
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Heart failure diagnosis: An essential guide for medical professionals
NIHD accreditation number: 26010729
Welcome to this e-learning that provides medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the steps in diagnosing heart failure. The course starts with recognizing symptoms, differential diagnoses, screening underlying causes, and interpreting research findings. Explaining the NYHA classification and understanding symptoms in different classes is also important. The e-learning also highlights the role of echocardiography, measurement of ejection fraction and the importance of natriuretic peptides.
1. Step 1: Symptoms indicating heart failure
1.1. Shortness of breath & helpful questions
1.2. Typical and less typical symptoms
1.3. Learning moment: The NYHA heart failure classification
2. Step 2: Differential diagnoses
2.1. Differential diagnoses: Shortness of breath & ankle swelling
3. Step 3: Underlying causes
3.1. Screening underlying causes
4. Step 4: Research findings
4.1. Signs are not always clear
4.2. European Society of Cardiology Guidelines
5. Step 5: Explain your preliminary diagnosis to the patient and outline your plan from here
5.1. Preliminary diagnosis of heart failure
5.2. Learning moment: What treatment can you use in primary care at an early stage?
6. Step 6: Initial examinations in primary health care
6.1. Measuring natriuretic peptides
6.2. Learning moment: 2018 NICE guideline
6.3. Other tests
7. Step 7: Heart failure diagnosis
7.1. Role of echocardiography and specialist assessment
8. Step 8: Ejection fraction
8.1. Echocardiography: An insight into research and clinical interpretation
8.2. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
8.3. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction