Update your management of heart failure (HF) with expert tips from Cardiologist Dr. Eric Adler, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at UC San Diego. We cover how to use BNP, a simple way to examine jugular venous distention, medical therapy for heart failure, the PARADIGM-HF trial, and how to use sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto). Full show notes available at http://thecurbsiders.com/podcast Join our newsletter mailing list. Rate us on iTunes, recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at thecurbsiders@gmail.com. Time Stamps 00:00 Intro 04:25 Rapid fire questions 06:00 Palliative care and heart failure 08:40 Book recommendation 10:20 Advice for teachers and learners 12:27 Clinical case of HF 13:38 Classification and staging of HF 17:07 Discussion of BNP 19:35 How to perform neck vein exam for JVD 21:20 BNP for prognosis 23:00 BNP at hospital discharge 26:36 Factors that affect BNP 27:25 Initial patient counseling 32:35 Exercise in HF 34:00 Additional testing at time of diagnosis 36:28 Initial medical therapy 38:30 Discussion of diuretics and dosing 42:50 Aldosterone antagonists 44:30 PARADIGM-HF and entresto 51:27 Medications to avoid in HF 54:14 Digoxin 57:30 Dr. Adler’s take home points 59:11 Stuart questions dosing conventions 60:48 Outro Tags: arni, assistant, care, diuretics, doctor, education, failure, family, foam, foamed, health, heart, hospitalist, hospital, internal, internist, neprilysin, nurse, management, medicine, medical, physician, practitioner, primary, resident, sacubitril, student