Management of acute heart failure exacerbation
| Autor: | W. Kao, Biljana Pavlovic Surjancev |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Heart Failure
medicine.medical_specialty Exacerbation business.industry Cardiogenic shock Public health Disease Management General Medicine Disease Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine medicine.disease Heart failure medicine Humans Decompensation Myocardial infarction High incidence Intensive care medicine business Physical Examination |
| Zdroj: | Critical care clinics. 17(2) |
| ISSN: | 0749-0704 |
| Popis: | Heart failure has become the leading public health challenge faced by cardiovascular medicine today. In spite of medical and surgical advances, total mortality continues to rise, particularly in the older population. 25 Although likely responsible for approximately 12 million outpatient visits per year, 37 a more concerning fact is that heart failure now constitutes the most common hospital discharge diagnosis for patients older than age 65. 41 This finding reflects the high incidence of the underlying condition—ventricular dysfunction—and more importantly the frequency with which the disease results in clinical decompensation requiring inpatient medical care. As a result, critical care specialists likely will be exposed in the future to an increasing volume of patients with various forms and degrees of heart failure exacerbation. This article focuses primarily on the approach to patients presenting with an acute decompensation of established ventricular dysfunction, because the management of cardiogenic shock and acute myocardial infarction are addressed elsewhere in this issue. |
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