The course seeks to provide general practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals with a solid background to the evidence of heart failure management as well as practical tips on ways to deliver the best care for patients.
Aims:
Day 1: Introductory Level
The first day of the course covers the Epidemiology, aetiology and patho-physiology of heart failure and basic medical, nursing, allied health and pharmacological management.
Day 2: Intermediate Level
The second day of the course covers advanced topics in diagnostics and management of complex heart failure; ancillary devices; depression, transplant and end-stage management.
The course is held each year in Brisbane with an option for video conferencing.
Please refer to the relevant course flyer below of Heart Failure Courses that are being conducted throughout Queensland in 2012.
Heart Failure Courses 2012 (PDF 75.1 kb)