What's New!

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.

Now Available! 2009 Updated Heart Failure Recomendations Slide kit

February 15, 2010

THEY ARE HERE!

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Heart Failure Guidelines Program are proud to release the French version of the slides and powerpoint presentation for the ‘2009 Update of the Heart Failure Recommendations - Diagnosis and management of right-sided heart failure, myocarditis, device therapy and recent clinical trials’.

We hope you will find these most useful for your presentations, your courses or, simply, for your own personal update of the heart failure guidelines.

We invite you to provide your feedback on this tool and any other heart failure resource that can be found on this website or that you would like to see.

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ELLES SONT ARRIVÉES!

La Société Canadienne de Cardiologie et le programme des ‘Recommandations relatives à l’insuffisance cardiaque (IC)’ sont fiers de rendre disponible la ‘Mise à jour 2009 - Diagnostic et prise en charge de l’insuffisance cardiaque droite, la myocardite, défibrillateurs/resynchronisateurs et études cliniques récentes’ sous forme de diapositives et présentation powerpoint.

En espérant qu’elles vous seront utiles dans vos présentations, dans vos cours ou tout simplement pour votre mise à jour personnelle.

N’hésitez pas à nous faire parvenir vos commentaires.

Heart Failure Boot Camp: Session #1 an outstanding success!

January 17, 2010

The CCS Heart Failure Boot Camp Team was pleased to present the first of 4 interactive webinars, Making the Diagnosis: Acute Heart Failure on Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010.
Over 30 participants were able to join us from various sites throughout Canada. The topics discussed included how to use the history and physical exam, biomarkers and imaging in the diagnosis of acute heart failure.

Registered participants can access the archived slides and supplementary reading for Session #1 in the Classroom Archives. Please log-in to the virtual classroom to access the classroom archives (log-in here). The webinar session #1 audio commentary and will be posted shortly.

Archived webinar videos, slides and supplementary readings for all 4 boot camp sessions will be openly available after the completion of the webinar series (February 24th, 2010). Other free downloadable CCS heart failure resources can be found at www.hfcc.ca/educational_tools.

We are looking forward to the second webinar in the series titled Treatment of AHF which will take place on Jan 27, 2010 at 12pm (Eastern). The topics to be addressed include the treatment of acute heart failure focusing on the use of diuretics, old and new therapies and what to expect with these medications.

If you have questions or comments about the program, please contact webinars@ccs.ca.

CCS Heart Failure Program is pumped to kick off 2010 with the first ever CCS Heart Failure Boot Camp!

January 8 2010

The CCS Heart Failure Program is please to announce Heat Failure Boot Camp - A CCS Interactive Webinar Series for Cardiovascular Pracittioners. The response to registration was overwhelming. We are pleased to announce that registration is at full capacity for this exciting event.

In addition to the boot camp wich will consist of 4 webinars starting January 13th-February 24th 2010, the Heart Failure website has added a Virtual Classrom. The virtual Classroom will be accessible only to those registered for the current session of boot camp.

Once the sessions are complete the webinars and course materials will be available for all visitors in the classroom archives.

We look forward to your participation and to bringing you more exciting events in the year to come.

If you are a registered participant ot for the Heart Failure Boot Camp session begining January 13th 2010 please click here to log in to the Virtual Classroom.