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The Canadian cardiovascular community comments on the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Conference Program

November 29, 2006

Delegates who attended the Heart Failure Consensus Conference sessions at CCC 2006 held in Vancouver were asked to comment on the program.

Below are just a few of the many comments and testimonials we captured. They reflect the challenges and opportunities in helping shape the future of heart failure care in Canada.

This feedback has already been integrated into the 2007 iteration of the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Conference Program.

We encourage you to submit your comments, suggestions and ideas to us through our website at http://hfcc.ccs.ca or email us at hfcc@ccs.ca.

About Heart Failure Care in Canada

‘So I realize that CCS HFCC has set a very high standard of care which I appreciate but the humbling part for me is that I’m going to go home and I’m not going to be able to meet that standard in managing my heart failure patients. So that is a frustration to me. So, what I would love to see is that these guys should be pushing for resources, especially non-physician teams so that we can implement these guidelines in a meaningful way because I can’t do that on my own with the current structure that exists. It’s just a matter of seeing to it that people have access.’

Physician Delegate
Ontario

‘I would say that the key message that I got out of the session was how well it works in all the different clinics - in all areas inside and outside the hospital. Also, that it’s a very team effort. It’s not just one person that can do wonders. It’s the whole team.’

Physician Delegate
Ontario

About the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Conference Tools: Publication, slide set, website…

‘The one thing about the heart failure guidelines is that they’re one of the first guidelines that really integrated the self-management piece. And so, those are real recommendations that a nurse can take and use. They don’t involve prescribing something. They don’t involve ordering a test that you don’t have the scope to order. There are a lot of really good practical bits of information that a nurse can impart and so I certainly use that with my patients on a daily basis.’

Carol Galte, MSN, NP(Family), CCN(C)
Vancouver, BC

‘I find it nice that this year the guidelines are going to be on the website with downloadable slides which will be great for teaching and passing on to people who can’t come to the conference.’

Physician Delegate
Ontario

About the CCS Heart Failure Consensus Workshops

‘The overall session, was great. You know, it’s always good when they come out with guidelines to help us in managing our care. It helps—you know, the tertiary care facilities have a lot of specialists available to them but if you go out in the community hospitals they really depend on the guidelines to manage their patients …I thought the session was very comprehensive and well thought out. And the evidence is incorporated well. I was very impressed with how practical the guidelines were in terms of utilizing medications and making suggestions that are actually going to be helpful.’

‘The thing I like the best about the session was the case studies. I hadn’t read the guidelines before. I knew they were there but I hadn’t read them, but I appreciated them presenting the highlights and more than anything the case studies.’

Physician Delegate
Ontario

‘Well I think this is a great sort of venue, doing it like this because I think typically, a lot of times, nursing talks are broken down into pieces of things… so you might go to a talk on sodium and fluid and heart failure but to bring it all together under one group, people can start to see it as sort of a plan of care as opposed to all these separate interventions.’

Carol Galte, MSN, NP(Family), CCN(C)
Vancouver, BC

‘The presentation itself was very helpful because one of the things that I found is that in the guidelines often times the practicalities are lost somewhere in the middle with all the evidence. So, one of the things about the guidelines as presented today, was the very practical points that would allow people to look at it and say, “This would directly apply to my practice.”’

Physician Delegate
British Columbia

‘I think it’s an excellent idea, you know, the way they have organized this workshop. Certainly it’s very useful and especially when we talk about palliative patients and the end of life with patients. Certainly makes it very useful when you have workshops like this that you can implement into your practice... I was interested to find the more holistic aspect of it, and that’s what I got from that. What was interesting to see, is that they’re moving towards an end-of-life sort of perspective, palliative perspective, of heart failure patients.’

Physician Delegate
British Columbia

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