Course Details : Heart%20Failure

Course Description

Therapists are faced with a unique challenge when exercising patients with heart failure. Several patients have multi system involvement, take multiple medications and are severely deconditioned. This course emphasizes key considerations applicable to the physical and occupational therapist in effectively managing patients with heart failure. The disease processes will be presented with specific reference to its etiology, pathology, and current medical management. In addition, the course accentuates various examination strategies, organized clinical decision making and effective treatment techniques to improve activity and participation. Evidence based research will be used to support the efficacy of exercises presented and both indications and contraindications will be discussed. Clinicians are challenged to integrate and synthesize physiological and clinical principles in decision making and development of appropriate plans of care within various case study scenarios.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course the learner will:

• Identify the disease process including the definition, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and clinical course of congestive heart failure.
• Understand the medical management for patients with acute and chronic CHF.
• Review the effects and uses of various pharmacological interventions for patients with heart failure.
• Select and provide rationale for utilization of various examination techniques for patients with heart failure in an effort to establish a PT/OT diagnosis, prognosis, and plan of care.
• Evaluate various objective data including but not limited to analyzing heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, heart and lung auscultation.
• Develop, design, and describe the rationale and physiologic effects of various treatment techniques in managing patients with heart failure.
• Collaborate with classmates in analyzing and interpreting patient data in a given cardiac case study to enhance decision making in clinical practice.

 

Course Agenda

Live webinar via Zoom
Hour 1	CHF: Definition, types, etiology, pathophysiology
	5 minute break
Hour 2	CHF: Medical management and Pharmacology
	5 minute break
Hour 3	Stability, Decompensation and Readmissions
	5 minute break
Hour 4	CHF - PT/OT Examination and Evaluation
	LUNCH (30 minutes)
Hour 5	CHF - Functional Outcome Measures
	5 minute break
Hour 6	CHF - PT/OT Treatment interventions
	5 minute break
Hour 7	CHF - PT/OT Treatment interventions
	5 minute break
Hour 8	Case Studies, Discussion
	Summary
	Adjourn

Upcoming Classes

Location	Date
Live webinar via Zoom	May 11, 2024 Registration Deadline : May 8, 2024 May 11th, 2024, 9:00am - 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time  Course Approvals: AOTA Approved Provider (#5635) California (Sutter Valley Medical Foundation - Approval Agency for California PT Board) Florida - 9.5 Contact Hours (CE Broker Tracking# 20-948531 - PT/PTA) (CE Broker Tracking# 20-948535 - OT/OTA) Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation New Jersey State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (2309-09) New York State Education Department Ohio Physical Therapy Association (23S2689) Oklahoma (CE Broker Tracking# 20-948531) Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners States that accept approvals by other State Boards/State Chapter of the APTA - AR, AZ, DC, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, MI, MO, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, UT, VA, VT, WI, WY States that do not require course pre-approval or do not require CEUs for re-licensure - AL, CO, CT, IA, MA, ME, MT, NE, ND, NH, SD, WA.

Location and Date

Live webinar via Zoom May 11, 2024 Registration Deadline : May 8, 2024 May 11th, 2024, 9:00am - 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time  Course Approvals: AOTA Approved Provider (#5635) California (Sutter Valley Medical Foundation - Approval Agency for California PT Board) Florida - 9.5 Contact Hours (CE Broker Tracking# 20-948531 - PT/PTA) (CE Broker Tracking# 20-948535 - OT/OTA) Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation New Jersey State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (2309-09) New York State Education Department Ohio Physical Therapy Association (23S2689) Oklahoma (CE Broker Tracking# 20-948531) Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners States that accept approvals by other State Boards/State Chapter of the APTA - AR, AZ, DC, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, MI, MO, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, UT, VA, VT, WI, WY States that do not require course pre-approval or do not require CEUs for re-licensure - AL, CO, CT, IA, MA, ME, MT, NE, ND, NH, SD, WA.

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