We know Heart Failure (HF) is a diagnosis that does not occur overnight, rather it occurs due to years and years of stress placed on the heart.  Resulting in years and years of management and likely hospital admissions and readmissions. As clinicians, we have to understand our patient’s diagnoses to help guide their therapy and give them the tools to set them up for success.  We should implement strategies that can help manage the progression of the disease process and better yet let's start earlier to be preventative vs reactive and in time to actually make an impact.

In this episode, Dr. Burriesci walks us through the latest HF Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) along with the New York Heart Association classifications. The goal of the CPG is to establish an evidence-based approach for the optimal treatment of HF. Dr. Burriesci dives deep into how we can utilize these recommendations for our patients and explore the research behind the 2020 CPG. She reviews the daily activity, education, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, resistance breathing training and exercise recommendations set in the CPG. She goes on to explain how we can tailor these interventions to our own patients. This episode gives us, as clinicians, the knowledge of what the perfect numbers should look like, but the realistic insight that we must meet our patients where they’re at to reduce their overall risk.

In this episode:

• Unpack the Heart Failure CPG
• Describe ACC stages vs NYHA Classes of HF
• Discuss 9 action statements aka recommendations for treating patient with heart failure
  • Increase physical activity 
  • Educate!
  •  Aerobic training
  • HIITs
  •  Strength training
  •  Inspiratory/respiratory muscle training
  •  NMES

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