Advanced Heart Failure

Catalog description

This four-week clerkship is intended to provide students with an opportunity to develop skills in the comprehensive evaluation of patients with congestive heart failure including the interpretation of laboratory and procedural diagnostic data. Students will gain experience in the inpatient and outpatient management of patients with heart failure, with emphasis on the hemodynamic evaluation of patients with acute decompensated heart failure and clinical assessment for advanced cardiac therapies including mechanical circulatory support devices, such as left ventricular assist devices, as well as cardiac transplantation.