Heart Failure: An update for GPs on diagnostic and management strategies

• Diagnostic pathways for heart failure
• Evidence-based management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
• Evidence-based management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
• How to detect advanced heart failure and respond to it
• Monitoring patients and troubleshooting common issues in the community

• Diagnostic pathways for heart failure.
• Evidence-based management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
• Evidence-based management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
• How to detect advanced heart failure and respond to it.
• Monitoring patients and troubleshooting common issues such as fluid overload and hyperkalaemia in the community.

Dr Mayooran Shanmuganathan is a consultant cardiologist who specialises in heart failure, advanced heart failure and cardiac MRI.

Dr Shanmuganathan graduated in medicine at Imperial College London in 2008. He won several prizes during his training including one from the Welcome Trust.  Dr Shanmuganathan also completed an intercalated BSc in Healthcare Management in 2006 and was awarded first-class honours.

He was awarded a Graduate Scholarship from University of Oxford to conduct research into the application of cardiac MRI in acute myocardial injury and obtained a DPhil (PhD). His research has been presented at international meetings and published in several high-ranking peer-reviewed journals.