Heart Failure at ESC 2023: Recapitulations, Postulations, Predictions
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8m 14sPart 2 | Session 1 ESC Heart Failure Guidelines Update
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3m 37sPart 2 | Session 2 The STEP HFpEF Trial
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8m 40sPart 2 | Session 3 The QUEST Trial
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6m 9sPart 2 | Session 4 Healthcare Innovations & Predictions
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3m 59sPart 2 | Session 5 Trust
Join the Late-breaker host, Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, CA) and Dr Milton Packer (Baylor University Medical Center, US) for a thought-provoking discussion on the present and future of heart failure care at ESC Congress 2023.
In this unique exchange, Dr Packer shares his thoughts on heart failure guidelines and the '2023 Focused Update of the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure,' while asking critical questions pertaining to categorisation and more.
Dr Van Spall asks Dr Packer about the hot line trial, STEP HFpEF, which examined how semaglutide performed in people dealing with both heart failure and obesity (NCT04788511).They put the trial in context by delving deeper into the question of BMI as a metric.
Next, Dr Packer highlights the question of bias in Western medicine and the unexpected results of the QUEST trial, the first randomised, double-blind controlled trial of traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of chronic heart failure. Dr Packer poses the question: Is Western medicine based on stories or evidence-based medicine?
We learn Dr Packer’s one wish for the future of healthcare and his vision for heart failure care. Could we achieve better care with a non-human workforce?
Lastly, Dr Van Spall and Dr Packer focus on the question of trust and how we can rebuild it between patients and healthcare workers.
Video Specialists: Oliver Miles, Dan Brent
Editor: Mirjam Boros
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Part 1
Complete Discussion
Part 2
Discussion in 5 Chapters
Faculty Biographies
Harriette Van Spall
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of E-Health and Virtual Care
Dr Harriette Van Spall is an internationally known cardiologist, research methodologist, and senior scientist. She serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, a Senior Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute, and Director of Implementation Science at the Baim Institute for Clinical Research in Boston.
Academic history
Dr Van Spall completed her BSc and MD at the University of Toronto, followed by residency and fellowship training in internal medicine and…
Milton Packer
Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science
Personal History
Dr Milton Packer was born to Polish immigrants in 1951 and raised in Philadelphia, US. Prior to studying medicine, he was politically active in the 1960s. In his words: “The focus of my upbringing was education, but the major guiding principle in my childhood years (and throughout my entire life) was an uncompromising sense of justice. I was always imbued with the need to strive for and defend the truth.” He began his career in cardiology during a pivotal time for the field, just as interventional cardiology and
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