Heart Failure for Professionals

Heart failure is a growing health and economic burden for the United States.

Approximately 6.7 million Americans over 20 years of age have heart failure.

It is important for clinicians to utilize patient-centric guideline recommendations to prevent, diagnose, and manage patients with heart failure to improve outcomes.

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HFmrEF/HFpEF: From Symptoms to Solutions

Identifying the type of heart failure that corresponds to a patient can be challenging. In this course, learners will build skills and familiarity with the laboratory, imaging, and invasive testing that will help in accurate diagnoses, treatment decisions, and determining the best course of action for patients once diagnosed with HFmrEF / HFpEF.
HFmrEF/HFpEF: From Symptoms to Solutions
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Practical Challenges and Opportunities: Implementing Evidence-Based Management of HFmrEF/HFpEF

The 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guidelines and Beyond

While evidence-based therapies continue to expand, substantial implementation gap exists for the real-world application of the treatment guidelines for HFmrEF/HFpEF especially when navigating comorbidities and other treatment barriers. This episode explores how clinicians can translate the guidelines into practical everyday care for patients.

Transcript: Practical Challenges and Opportunities

Device Therapies for HFmrEF/HFpEF

This episode explores how device-based strategies can complement medical therapy in HFpEF and HFmrEF. It offers a practical framework to confirm HF phenotype, identify treatment targets, and guide device use—plus key referral cues and real-world implementation tips.
Transcript: Device Therapies for HFmrEF/HFpEF

Embracing the Era of Combination Medical Therapy for HFmrEF/HFpEF

This episode explores the foundational treatment pillars for HFmrEF and HFpEF, emphasizing the clinical rationale behind simultaneous or rapid-sequential initiation of combination guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT).
Transcript Embracing the Era of Combination Medical Theraphy

Obesity Across the Spectrum on Heart Failure: Who Do We Treat & How?

Experts reveal how obesity drives heart failure, exploring pathophysiology, diagnostic hurdles, and treatments—from lifestyle changes to advanced therapies—while emphasizing prevention, equitable health, and personalized care. Tackling obesity is key to better outcomes.
Transcript Obesity Across the Spectrum on Heart Failure

Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome in HFmrEF/HFpEF: From Visceral Fat to Guideline-Directed Therapy

In this episode, experts unpack the emerging concept of cardio-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome and its pivotal role in the development and progression of HFmrEF / HFpEF.
Transcript CKM Syndrome in HFmrEF/HFpEF

Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Updates in Definition, Diagnostic Testing, and Phenotyping

Experts review definitions, diagnostic testing, risk prediction tools, and phenotypes of HFpEF. Listen to learn about common mimickers of HFpEF, and diagnostic clues and tests to help identify these diagnoses.
Transcript Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Additional Resources

IMPLEMENT-EF Initiative

AHA IMPLEMENT-EF Initiative


This initiative will help improve care for patients with HFmrEF / HFpEF by identifying unmet needs, mapping gaps in the patient journey and defining ideal care models.

Learn More IMPLEMENT-EF Initiative

Heart Failure Patient Resources

Engaging your patients in shared decision making when developing a treatment plan for Heart Failure will optimize health results.

Check out these free downloadable Patient Education Resources to use in conversation with your patients.

Guidelines-on-the-Go

Healthcare professional using the Guidelines-on-the-Go app

The Guidelines-on-the-Go App features the 2020 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, plus so much more.

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