Heart failure [[electronic resource] ] : providing optimal care / / edited by Mariell Jessup and Kathleen M. McCauley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143285803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Elmsford, N.Y., : Futura, c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-19717-X; 9786610197170; 0-470-79483-6; 0-470-99475-4; 1-4051-4017-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: American Heart Association Monograph Series
• Altri autori (Persone): JessupMariell L; McCauleyKathleen M. <1949->
• Disciplina: 616.1/29; 616.129
• Soggetti: Heart failure; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: HEART FAILURE: PROVIDING OPTIMALCARE; Preface; Contributors; Contents; 1. Heart Failure as a National Health Problem: The Burden of Heart Failure; 2. Heart Failure Guidelines and Disease Management; 3. Managed Care and Heart Failure; 4. Defining Heart Failure: Systolic versus Diastolic Dysfunction, Differential Diagnosis, Initial Testing; 5. Serial Clinical Assessment of the Patient with Heart Failure; 6. Treatment Goals for Heart Failure Patients in Critical Care; 7. Managing Complicated In-Patients: Comorbidities and the Frail Elderly; 8. Transition from Hospital to Home: Interdisciplinary Management Models9. Living with Heart Failure: Promoting Adherence, Managing Symptoms, and Optimizing Function; 10. Pharmacologic Management: Achieving Target Doses and Managing Interactions; 11. Continuum of Care: Prevention to End of Life; 12. Surgical Management of Heart Failure; 13. The Management of Heart Failure's Electrical Complications: Device Therapy; 14. Moving Ahead with Heart Failure: What Does the Future Hold?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 in-patient management of acute exacerbations, and out-patient management to improve survival, quality of life, and functional status. The editors are active members of the American Heart Association and influential councils on clinical cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and have assembled a t