Heart failure : providing optimal care /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jessup, Mariell L., McCauley, Kathleen M., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Elmsford, N.Y. : Futura, [2003]
Series:American Heart Association monograph series.
Subjects:
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?