Happy New Year and welcome to the American Family Physician podcast for the January 1st, 2017 issue.

I'm Steve.

I'm Kalina. I'm Evan. We are residents and faculty, mostly

residents from the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix Family Medicine Residency.

This time on the podcast, we're going to talk about heart failure treatment, patient-centered

communication, membrane sweeping, opiate withdrawal, and we have a wrap

entitled Primary Care Dreams.

The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and do not represent the opinions of the American

Academy of Family Physicians, the Editor of American Family Physician, or Banner Health.

Do not use this podcast for medical advice.

Instead, see your own family doctor for medical care.

Our first feature article is heart failure due to reduced ejection fraction, medical

management. This is from a group out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. And I want to start by reminding

everybody of the AFP by topic, which is both an app and an area on the web page. If you look at heart failure,

you'll see a June 2012 article on the diagnosis and evaluation of heart failure, as well as 2009,

a review of cardiomyopathy. There's also two steps articles for two new drugs we're going to

discuss briefly here here and also an

HRQ summary on transitional care interventions for heart failure. So if you want to know more than

just the medical management of heart failure that we're going to discuss today, this would be a

great place to start. So we're going to try to summarize this very useful article in some

take-home points. Okay, so the first point is that ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers,

beta blockers, aldosterone antagonists, and direct acting phasodilators all reduce all cause mortality and hospitalizations for heart failure

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