Heart Failure Focus is a podcast brought to you by the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN). Each episode is designed to help the busy health care professional breakdown all aspects of heart failure. Each segment is broken down into different topics so you can listen on the go during the course of your day. The AAHFN is a specialty organization dedicated to advancing nursing education, clinical practice, and research to improve heart failure patient outcomes.
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American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)
A conversation with Chris Bell, Robin Miller, and Linda Ordway about the future of the AAHFN.
30 Jul 2026
Top 10 Takeaways from the AAHFN 2026 Annual Meeting
Tune in for the top 10 takeaways from the AAHFN 2026 Annual Meeting.
17 Apr 2026
Integrating Health Technologies in Heart Failure
Join Laura Peters, NP and Meg Fraser, NP for a discussion of the latest AAHFN scientific statement, developed jointly with the Heart Failure Society of America, on integrative health technologies in heart failure care. The hosts will discuss practical guidance on incorporating digital health tools into heart failure care—shifting from singular devices to coordinated, team-based, and actionable systems of care.
18 Sept 2025
Nurse-Led ECMO — What we can learn from a Center of Excellence
Chris interviews Melissa Fix, BSN, is the program manager for temporary mechanical circulatory support (MCS) at Keck Medical Center, University of Southern California. She specializes in the care of patients with advanced heart failure, cardiogenic shock, and complex cardiothoracic surgical needs, with a particular focus on advancing a nurse-led ECMO model. This episode was made possible through grant funding from Abbott.
11 Sept 2025
Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) — Getting more out of a failing heart
Chris bell interviews Michael Arnold DNP, FHRS, about what is new in CCM therapy and when GDMT is not enough.
23 Jul 2025
Nurse-Led ECMO
What we can learn from a Center of Excellence
28 Apr 2025
Decompensated HF and Diuretic Resistance — Finding success with UltraFiltration
A review of UltraFiltration as a therapeutic modality to overcome chronically decompensated heart failure in patients who struggle poorly responsive to diuretics. A brief review of pivotal trials as well as discussion of real-world experience with the therapy in a successful advanced heart failure clinic.
5 Aug 2024
CardioMEMS Legacy
Abbott celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the FDA approval of CardioMEMS. On this podcast Chris Bell talks to Rebecca (Beki) Angerstein about the legacy of CardioMEMS. Beki is currently the Manager in Medical Affairs at Abbott. Her clinical background includes managing CV patients at the bedside and in a large cardiology practice for many years. She continues to practice clinically working prn in the hospital. Her passion is heart failure which led her to Abbott where she worked with clinicians on HF research trials.
20 May 2024
Structural heart disease
In this episode of Heart Failure Focus, Chris Bell talks about structural heart disease, specifically mitraclip, and upcoming trials with Kristy Gam, NP, Lead APP for General Cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine in outpatient Interventional/Structural Cardiology.
27 Sept 2023
HF overview (what's new and what's hot)
In this episode of Heart Failure Focus, Chris Bell talks about what's new and hot in heart failure with Midge Bowers, a Clinical Professor and Lead Faculty for the cardiovascular specialty at Duke University School of Nursing. They review the “4 Pillar” therapy for HFrEF as well as discuss the emerging phenotypes of HFpEF.
17 Mar 2022
HF Devices and Remote Monitoring: Past, Present, and Future
Brief discussion with Dr. Phil Adamson, Divisional VP & CMO for the Heart Failure Division at Abbott , and longtime support of AAHFN.
Listen as he discusses the role of device therapy & remote monitoring in heart failure from a personal and corporate perspective.
25 Jan 2022
NYHA Study
This podcast discusses the importance of being accurate with NYHA Functional Classification as well as the current study that is focused on NYHA classification.
18 Feb 2021
Diagnostic work up of Cardiac Amyloidosis
This podcast will provide an overview of the steps and diagnostic studies that should be ordered on a patient with suspected Amyloidosis.
4 Feb 2021
Amyloidosis: Red Flags and symptoms
This podcast will describe the signs and symptoms that are common in Amyloidosis and will help the clinician pull together the pertinent factors, besides the well known low voltage EKG
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
6 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 10 / 100
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8
Social presence
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YouTube
0
Engagement
32
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