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Consultant Cardiology Pharm, A Professor,NICE HF Guidelines, ESC ACNAP, AAC, NHSE, UKCPA! Posts do NOT represent any of my employers unless stated.
Aug 30, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
🧵of 🔟 #pharmacotherapy take home messages from #ESCCongress 22

1️⃣ Post MI - polypill (asp+ACEi+statin) improves 2º CV prev (SECURE)
2️⃣Antihypertensives can be taken AM or PM - no difference (TIME)
3️⃣Neprilysin inhibition doesn't affect cognitive function in HF (PERSPECTIVE) ImageImageImage 4️⃣ AHF, IV Acetazolamide + loop diuretics ➡️ better decongestion, ⬇️ hospital stay & discharge without residual volume overload. (ADVOR)
5️⃣ Dapagliflozin for patients with HFpEF / HFmrEF, and HFimpEF. (DELIVER)
6️⃣Allopurinol doesn't improve major CV outcomes in IHD. (ALL-HEART) ImageImageImage
Aug 28, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
Very high prevelance of smokers.
✔️After hypertension, smoking is the second top risk factor for death globally
✔️Tobacco kills 50% of its users!
#ESCCongress
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May 7, 2022 18 tweets 6 min read
Tweet thread to pharmacy professional bodies & NHS about Consultant Pharmacists. How it feels on the ground? Need for action!
@davidwebb_1 @rpharms @RSharmaPharma @GHPPharmacy @roisohare @NinaLBarnett @UKCPA @NHSEngland @AmandaPritchard @keithridge1 @santon74 @AntibioticLeeds The title “Consultant Pharmacist” was formally recognised by the NHS in 2005 in the Department of Health. A "Consultant Pharmacist Guidance " was published in January 2020. Let us recap:
May 28, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read
Some key messages from "Coronavirus and CVD medications" Webinar:
Lipid management (stable)
✔️ Carry on as usual
✔️ Tele Clinic to support patients and address concerns.
✔️ Check interactions with medicines if new therapies were prescribed. (DI) Heart Failure (stable)
✔️ Carry on as normal (check DI)
✔️ ACEI / ARBs / Entresto carry on as normal.
✔️ Tele clinics to support patients and address concern.
✔️ Encourage patients to report / seek help if deterioration of symptoms
✔️ Links with HF teams
Feb 4, 2020 9 tweets 14 min read
Delighted. MYMEDS published. Invaluable tool to support cardiology post-MI person-centred consultation by all healthcare professionals.
✔️ Understand patients medicines taking experience
✔️ Identify and address modifiable barriers to adherence.
@BMC_series
bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Developed at @LeedsHospitals @UoL_LICAMM @unileedscardio @LeedsMedHealth @LTHPharmacy. To support person-centred consultation. @MeAndMyMeds @YHAHSN @PeteWaddingham @UnaLaverty @Heather52108206 @Heatherspharm @drmahendrapatel @WYHHealthyHeart @iamnickevans