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Heart Failure
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

  1. What is Heart Failure
  2. The Epidemic of Heart Failure
  3. What Causes Heart Failure
  4. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
  5. How to Judge Disease Severity, Clinical Status and Prognosis
  6. Therapeutic Approach to Heart Failure: An Overview
  7. How to Evaluate Patients with Symptoms Suggestive of Heart Failure
  8. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Heart Failure
  9. How to Use Diuretics in Heart Failure Patients
  10. How to Use Neurohormonal Antagonists in Heart Failure
  11. Is There Still a Role for Digitalis in Heart Failure?
  12. The Heart Failure Hospitalization
  13. Ancillary Pharmacological Therapies for Heart Failure
  14. Devices
  15. Surgical Approaches to Heart Failure
  16. When to Refer Patients for Heart Transplantation
  17. Co-Morbidities & Heart Failure
  18. Disease Management Overview
  19. How to Develop a Heart Failure Management Pathway
  20. Integrating Inpatient and Outpatient Management
  21. What is a Heart Failure Clinic?
  22. Putting it All Together: Optimizing the Management of Heart Failure Patients
  23. Future Directions

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Heart Failure
A Practical Approach to Treatment
by William T. Abraham

2007 • 322 pages • $90.00 + shipping
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