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Clinical casebook: heart failure

Module Summary

Consultant cardiologist Professor Abdallah Al-Mohammad with advice on four heart failure presentations

Learning Objectives

This module brings you the latest on heart failure, including:

  • The role of testing in heart failure diagnosis
  • The definition of heart failure in terms of ejection fraction
  • Which drugs to use under which circumstances
  • Which patients can be considered for resynchronisation therapy or transplantation 
Author: Professor Abdallah Al-Mohammad is an Honorary Chair of Cardiology at the University of Sheffield and a consultant cardiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Module first published: 1.05.17

Article reviewed and updated: 05.02.23

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Reviews

  • Useful

  • useful

  • very very good module, earnt a lot!

  • very good learning module

  • Great

  • This was very informative and demonstrates how difficult it would be to treat HF patients in the same way.

  • nice presentation

  • hard

  • This felt very complicated - but when you worked through the case studies carefully, it wasn\\\\\'t as complicated as it first appeared.

  • none

  • Great case base learning

  • useful module

  • Good module

  • this is ace. love it. just let us know how many questions are and what question per out of total please.

  • very useful module

  • educative

  • very useful

  • Excellent educational activity which definitely benefited my HF management.

  • Really thought provoking

  • good module

  • Very good module