Summit Medical Grand Rounds

Recognize the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guidelines for the management of Heart Failure for clinical congestion. Determine appropriate HF medications and utilization. Identify what is Volume vs Congestion. Distinguish expansion of intravascular blood as the heart of the HF initiation and progression. Determine the impact of measuring, knowing and treating intravascular volume. Identify Plasma and red cell volume phenotypes in Hospitalized HF patients. Optimize HF management with (BVA) Blood Volume Analysis. Interpret the BVA results for specific patient treatment to reach euvolemia. Analyze the health economics and benefits of BVA.