This talk by Dr Wala Mattar, focuses on what GPs and primary care should be aware of and when they should consider referring patients to the heart failure services.
Learning objectives:
- Definition of heart failure
- Chronic vs acute heart failure
- Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction vs preserved ventricular function
- Cardiac rhythm management for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Multidisciplinary team management for the prevention and treatment of chronic heart failure
Dr Wala Mattar Background
Dr Wala Mattar is a consultant cardiologist, appointed at Watford General and Harefield Hospital in 2018.
Prior to this, Dr Mattar qualified from the Arabian Gulf University in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2004, then specialised in internal medicine and cardiology. In 2011, she came to the UK to train in cardiology at Harefield Hospital. Her subspecialty interest is coronary and structural intervention and permanent pacemakers’ insertion.
