http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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 -- Nonpharmacologic 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 pharmacologic therapies for heart failure -- Devices for the treatment of heart failure -- Surgical approaches to heart failure -- When to refer patients for heart transplantation -- Comorbidities and heart failure -- Disease management overview -- How to develop a heart failure management pathway -- Integrating inpatient and outpatient heart failure management -- What is a heart failure clinic? -- Putting it all together : optimizing the management of chronic heart failure patients
[edited by] William T. Abraham, Henry Krum.
Includes bibliographical references and index.