16th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 10
Monday
PM
ORAL ABSTRACT SESSIONS
Monday, September 10
12:30-1:45 PM
Ballroom 6A
How To sessions
Monday, September 10
12:30-1:30 PM
Sept. 10
Monday
PM
Location
Monday
Rapid Fire Abstracts (cont.)
1:10* Cognitive Function in Older Heart Failure 210
Patients Is Similar to Older Patients Following Stroke
Karen Harkness, Gail MacKenzie, Emma MacLean, George
Heckman, Demetrios J. Sahlas, Wieslaw Oczkowski, Robert
McKelvie; McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada;
Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada; University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
1:15* Pumped up, but Not Prepared: Examining 117
LVAD-DT Patients’ Comprehension of Advance
Directive Specifications
James Kirkpatrick, Sarah Hull, Katherine Kellom, Rebecca
Henderson, Frances Barg; University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA; Yale University, New Haven, CT
1:20* Patient Perception of Physician-Patient 295
Communication At Time of Implantable
Defibrillator Implant Decision
Paul J. Hauptman, John Chibnall, Camille Guild, Eric Armbrecht;
Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis,
MO; Neurology and Psychiatry, Saint Louis University School of
Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Center for Outcomes Research, Saint
Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
1:25* Lipopolysaccharide Responsiveness Is an 080
Independent Predictor of Death in Chronic
Heart Failure
Nicole Ebner, Gabor Foldes, Lutz Schomburg, Anja Sandek,
Jochen Springer, Ewa Jankowska, Sabine Genth-Zotz, Wolfram
Doehner, Stefan D. Anker, Stephan von Haehling; Department of
Cardiology, Applied Cachexia Research,
Charité –University Medical School, Campus Virchow-Klinikum,
Berlin, Germany; National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial
College, London, United Kingdom; Charité- University Medical
School, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Institut für Experimentelle
Endokrinologie, Berlin, Germany; Department of Cardiology,
Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland; Department of Medical
Immunology, Charité –University Medical School, Campus
Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
1:30* Quantifying Circadian Variation of Multiple 294
Physiologic Signals in Ambulatory Heart
Failure Patients
John Boehmer, Yi Zhang, Robert Sweeney, Ramesh Wariar, Qi
An, Pramodsingh Thakur, Viktoria Averina, Julie Thompson; Penn
State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Boston
Scientific, St. Paul, MN
1:35* Short and Long-Term Outcome of Impedance-Guided 185
Preemptive Therapy Provided To Prevent Pulmonary
Congestion-Edema in the Course of Acute Myocardial
Infarction
Michael Shochat, Avraham Shotan, Mark Kazatsker, Aya Asif, Iris
Dahan, Elena Shochat, Yaniv Levy, David Blondheim, Simcha
Meisel; Cardiology, Hille Yaffe Heart Institute, Hadera, Israel
1:40* Night-Time Elevation Angles in MultiSENSE 020
Study Are Related to Symptoms of Orthopnea & Paroxysmal
Nocturnal Dyspnea
John Hatlestad, Sharda Mehta, Joan Whelan-Schwartz, Ravi
Shankar, John P. Boehmer; Cardiac Rhythm Management, Boston
Scientific Corporation, St. Paul, MN; Heart and Vascular Institute,
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
*3 minutes to present, 2 minute discussion
Learning Objective: Discuss findings from recent clinical research
in heart failure.
1. How to Identify Treatable Causes of Heart Failure Room 612
Michael M. Givertz Boston, MA
David E. Lanfear, Detroit, MI
Learning Objective: List treatable causes of heart failure
and describe clinical techniques and procedures to identify them.
2. How to Bridge Patients to Transplantation with VADS Room 616
Michael A. Acker, Philadelphia, PA
Josef Stehlik, Salt Lake City, UT
Learning Objective: Identify clinical issues in the management
of patients with VADs awaiting transplant and how they can
best be managed.
3. How to Maximize Adherence to Heart Failure Room 608/609
Performance Measures in the Inpatient and
Outpatient Settings
Marc A. Silver, Oak Lawn, IL
Mary N. Walsh, Indianapolis, IN
Learning Objective: Identify heart failure performance
measures and describe strategies for maximizing adherence
in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
4. Using Tools for Economic Analysis of Room 619
Management Interventions
Shelby D. Reed, Durham, NC
Sara C. Paul, Hickory, NC
Learning Objective:Use tools to analyze the cost and
cost-effectiveness of management interventions in heart failure.
5. Difficult Conversations About Prognosis Room 603
Kristen G. Schaefer, Boston
Harleah G. Buck, University Park, PA
Learning Objective: Describe strategies for productive
discussions with heart failure patients facing a
difficult prognosis.
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