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5th Annual Heart Failure Workshop at Toronto Heart Summit

May 12, 2010

In the spirit of continued collaboration with the Annual Toronto Heart Summit Conference the 2010 CCS National Workshop Initiative is pleased to invite you to its 5th annual heart failure workshop. Friday June 11th, 2010 from 12:50-2:20 pm at the Four Season Hotel, Toronto Ontario.

This highly interactive, case based heart failure workshop which focuses on the 2010 update of the CCS heart failure guidelines will address Heart Failure and Ethnic Minorities, Heart Failure and Pregnancy and Disease Management in Heart Failure from a clinical perspective and provide a user-friendly and practical approach to heart failure care.

For more information please click on the link below
2010 Toronto Heart Summit/CCS National Workshop

We look forward to your participation!

The 2010 Guidelines are now available online!

April 20, 2010

The CCS heart failure guidelines team has worked very hard throughout 2009 to bring to you this 2010 update of recommendations entitled ‘Heart failure in ethnic minority populations, heart failure and pregnancy, disease management, and quality improvement/assurance programs’. These evidence-based recommendations and practical tips were written with end users in mind following the wealth and breadth of feedback the CCS has been receiving via its National Workshop Initiative in 2009.

We hope you will find the document useful as both a reference and a tool in your practice setting.

We welcome your suggestions or comments on the 2010 Update, for your convenience please email us at hfcc@ccs.ca or use the link provided within the contact us section of the Heart Failure website.

Click here to view the 2010 Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines on for the diagnosis and management of heart failure update: Heart failure in ethnic minority populations, heart failure and pregnancy, disease management, and quality improvement/assurance programs.

Join us for our 5th annual Heart Failure Workshop at ACC Lake Louise

March 11, 2010

Please join us on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 (4:30pm-6:00pm) at the annual meeting of ACC Lake Louise.

The 2010 CCS National Workshop Initiative, under the auspices of the CCS Heart Failure Guidelines Program, is pleased to present its 5th annual heart failure workshop at ACC Lake Louise and contribute to over 25 years of ACC Lake Louise tradition of providing excellent continuing medical education.

This is the first of our eight 2010 case-based and highly interactive workshops which aims at engaging Canadian health care professionals, physicians, trainees, nurses and pharmacists, in the establishment of benchmarks and ongoing improvements of the complex care of your heart failure patients. We will also use this unique opportunity to present you with the newly released 2010 CCS heart failure recommendations.

Your participation and contribution have been and continue to be instrumental to CCS’s commitment to establishing, promoting and assessing evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of heart
failure in Canada.

Click here to view the ACC Lake Louise Invitation

Heart Failure Webinars now posted in the Webinar Library

March 7, 2010

The first CCS Heart Failure Boot Camp was an overwhelming success. The Boot Camp consisted of 4 learning sessions:

1. Make the Diagnosis: Acute Heart Failure
2. Treatment of AHF
3. Tranistion of AHF to home and Chronic HF
4. Chronic HF problem managment

Each session consists of a audio file, accompanying powerpoint presentation and supplimentary reading material selected by our expert faculty.

If you were unable to participate in our 2010 Heart Failure Boot Camp you can now access all 4 of the Heart Failure webinars along with all supplimentary reading material online in our Webinar Library.

We look forward to providing you with more e-learning opportunities in the future.