Description
9.00-09.30am Registration and Coffee
9.30-10.30am Diagnosing and managing Heart Failure in
Primary Care
Dr Yassir Javaid
Accurate diagnosis of Heart Failure including
use of Natriuretic peptides
Practical aspects of Heart Failure management
including newer agent sacubitril/valsartan
How to manage adverse events from
medications
Device therapies in Heart Failure simplified
10.30-11.00am Screening, diagnosis and management of
Atrial Fibrillation
Dr Yassir Javaid
Why prioritise AF in primary care?
Who to refer?
Rate vs rhythm control
Communicating risk and benefit of stroke
prevention
11.00-11.30am Coffee and Break
11.30-12.00pm Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
Dr Yassir Javaid
Making the case for oral anticoagulants and not
aspirin in AF stroke prevention
Using DOACs and warfarin safely
Monitoring and audit of OAC use in AF
How to manage DOAC use if bleeding, surgical
procedures, interruption of therapy
12.00-13.00pm Community aspects of Valve disease
Dr Yassir Javaid
Demystifying heart sounds and murmurs
Detecting valve disease and surveillance
Suspecting infecting endocarditis and
management
Timely referral for valve intervention
Physiological vs pathological findings on echo