Heart failure : providing optimal care /
The objective of this text is to synthesise the research based clinical treatment strategies that have been found to be most effective in the clinical management of heart failure as a disease. Incorporating recommendations from state of the art guidelines, the text will comprehensively address both...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | 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 / Arthur M. Feldman, Virginia Schneider, and Ozlem Soran
- Heart failure guidelines and disease management / David W. Baker
- Managed care and heart failure / Suzette Cardin
- Defining heart failure: systolic versus diastolic dysfunction, differential diagnosis, initial testing / Mariell Jessup
- Serial clinical assessment of the patient with heart failure / Lynne Warner Stevenson
- Treatment goals for heart failure patients in critical care / Anna Gawlinski and Lynne Warner Stevenson
- Managing complicated in-patients: comorbidities and the frail elderly / Lee R. Goldberg
- Transition from hospital to home: interdisciplinary management models / Sara Paul and Kathleen M. McCauley
- Living with heart failure: promoting adherence, managing symptoms, and optimizing function / Nancy M. Albert and Sara Paul.
- Pharmacologic management: achieving target doses and managing interactions / David Rabin
- Continuum of care: prevention to end of life / Salpy V. Pamboukian and Nancy M. Albert
- Surgical management of heart failure / David Zeltsman, and Michael A. Acker
- The management of heart failure's electrical complications: device therapy / John M. Fontaine
- Moving ahead with heart failure: what does the future hold? / James B. Young.