COVID 19 Series #2 – Telemedicine for Heart Failure: Maximizing Productivity & Patient Outcomes

This is a new webinar in the Impulse Dynamics webinar series, Cardiovascular Device Management in the COVID-19 Era, where an esteemed group of faculty shared their initial reactions on treatment strategies and recommendations for patients with cardiovascular disease and potential exposure to COVID-19. The upcoming webinar will dive deeper into newly provided guidelines and the faculty will discuss tactics and useful tips for successfully caring for these patients.

This lecture will discuss how the COVID 19 pandemic has changed the way patients and physicians interact with each other and the changes to the healthcare environment, with telehealth being a priority.

Many institutions and clinics have already adopted virtual clinics as a way to maintain patient care, but as the pandemic plays out, there are many changes that are affecting the way hospitals and their providers practice every day. Implementation of virtual patient visits differs from health system to health system, depending on their existing infrastructure and capabilities. The faculty will discuss what their institutions are currently doing, share experiences, and what their next steps are for this new way of life of medicine.

Objectives:

• Discuss platforms that could be used for telemedicine and infrastructure needed to operate
• Share best practices for device management of heart failure patients
• Discuss screening of patients for potential elective procedures
• Evaluate what elective procedures are a priority for heart failure patients

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