Drugs and Devices for the Failing Heart/Diabetes: No System Spared

4 South Ridge Road,Perkasie PA 18944

24 September, 2022

Description

Drugs and Devices for Failing Hearts & Four Pillars of HFRH: Heart failure treatment is much more than Lasix and daily weights. This course is designed for health professionals who are interacting with patients with heart failure. Older medication, like Jardiance, applied in new ways. New medications that improve outcomes. Presentation encompasses treatment path for CHF and includes a review of cardiac devices such as: Impella, LVAD, Cardiac Resynchronization, CaridoMems and ICD's. Former Chief Resident at Abington-Jefferson Dr. Collins now shares his knowledge and expertise with us on a Saturday morning. Dr. Matthew Collins is an attending Cardiologist with Grand View-Lehigh Valley Health Service, Buxmont Cardiology Division. With a passion for teaching and digital editing skills that rival a millenial, Dr. Collins lectures are visually exquist, intellectually stimulating and clinically solid. Diabetes: No System Spared: It quietly destroys vasculature, organs and systems. Frequently, in conjunction with CHF. Carol takes a look at why we see higher glucose readings in Covid patients. Stay on top of Diabetic complications, other disease process it affects and new medications. Carol is an education expert and will not disappoint. If you have said the phrase "noncompliant diabetic" you need to meet Carol. After spending 35 years as Director of Nursing Education and Diabetic Education for an acute care hospital Carol Knauff RN MSN CCRN has spent the last 8 years as the Clinical Manager for St. Luke's Buxmont Gastroenterology. Nurses must continually expand their learning of this silent, deadly disease process. Diabetes management in the outpatient areas is vital as the volume of new diagnosis continues to soar in our patient populations. Carol's compassion for the diabetic patient and the difficulty of their reality is tangible. You do not want to miss the opportunity to learn from Carol. CLEAR Continuing Education is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Approver Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.