A Practical Approach to Treatment
by William T. Abraham
Heart Failure provides all the expert guidance and up-to-the-minute clinical perspectives you need to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with heart failure.
A major focus of Heart Failure is integration of various management approaches to maximize patient benefit.
Coverage begins with a brief introduction on the incidence and causes of heart failure, then quickly moves into a more thorough clinical overview of symptom evaluation; pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment methods; hospitalization; surgical treatments; and more.
Features:
- Clear, step-by-step coverage of prevention and all treatment modalities with evidence-based recommendations
- Full examination of the types of heart failure, prevalence, morbidity and associated co-morbidities, mortality, risk factors, etiologies, cardiomyopathies, and pathophysiology
- Key perspectives on the use of ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, aldosterone antagonists, IV vasoactive medications, diuretics, digitalis, surgical procedures and devices, and more
- Need-to-know procedures for patient evaluation
- Heart failure disease management programs and pathways of care that can be applied in any practice setting
- Clinically relevant diagrams, figures, and algorithms
Contents
- What is Heart Failure
- The Epidemic of Heart Failure
- What Causes Heart Failure
- Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
- How to Judge Disease Severity, Clinical Status and Prognosis
- Therapeutic Approach to Heart Failure: An Overview
- How to Evaluate Patients with Symptoms Suggestive of Heart Failure
- Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Heart Failure
- How to Use Diuretics in Heart Failure Patients
- How to Use Neurohormonal Antagonists in Heart Failure
- Is There Still a Role for Digitalis in Heart Failure?
- The Heart Failure Hospitalization
- Ancillary Pharmacological Therapies for Heart Failure
- Devices
- Surgical Approaches to Heart Failure
- When to Refer Patients for Heart Transplantation
- Co-Morbidities & Heart Failure
- Disease Management Overview
- How to Develop a Heart Failure Management Pathway
- Integrating Inpatient and Outpatient Management
- What is a Heart Failure Clinic?
- Putting it All Together: Optimizing the Management of Heart Failure Patients
- Future Directions
Index