Heart failure is associated with distressing symptoms, high resource utilization, and significant mortality. While palliative care is highly relevant for patients with heart failure, it remains underutilized and often poorly integrated into standard care. Clinicians and institutions should strive to deliver high-quality, integrated heart failure–palliative care across the disease spectrum to ease burdens on patients, caregivers, and healthcare systems.
This activity is intended for trainees, fellows, mid-career physicians, APPs, nurses, and intensivists.
At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be better able to:
- Understand the need for palliative care among patients with heart failure.
- Discuss how palliative care can be effectively integrated into comprehensive heart failure management.
- Apply key recommendations from the HFSA Consensus Statement on the integration of palliative care in heart failure care.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration to address the palliative care needs of patients with heart failure.
Program Agenda
All sessions are listed in Eastern Standard Time.
Welcome Remarks
Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, and Haider Warraich, MD
Top Takeaways from the Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America
Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, and Haider Warraich, MD
Case-Based Panel Discussion and Q&A with Co-Authors of the Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America
Sarah Chuzi, MD, MSc, Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, FNP-C, Jill M. Steiner, MD, MS and Haider Warraich, MD