Heart failure : providing optimal care /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Elmsford, N.Y. :
Futura,
[2003]
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| Series: | American Heart Association monograph series.
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Table of Contents:
- Heart failure as a national health problem : the burden of heart failure
- Heart failure guidelines and disease management
- Managed care and heart failure
- Defining heart failure : systolic versus diastolic dysfunction, differential diagnosis, initial testing
- Serial clinical assessment of the patient with heart failure
- Treatment goals for heart failure patients in critical care
- Managing complicated in-patients : comorbidities and the frail elderly
- Transition from hospital to home : interdisciplinary management models
- Living with heart failure : promoting adherence, managing symptoms, and optimizing function
- Pharmacological management : achieving target doses and managing interactions
- Continuum of care : prevention to end of life
- Surgical management of heart failure
- The management of heart failure
- The management of heart failure's electrical complications : device therapy
- Moving ahead with heart failure : what does the future hold?