Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84628-425-0 (ISBN)
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Heart failure accounts for between 1 per cent and 2 per cent of health care expenditure in developed countries and up to 5 per cent of admissions to general medical and geriatric wards. With a growing ageing population and increased survival rates to myocardial infarction, these statistics are likely to increase dramatically. This increasing workload falls to the hospital specialist and the general practitioner as, once diagnosis has been confirmed, the patient requires careful monitoring and management for the duration of their life.
HF:Overview * Definition & diagnosis * Epidemiology * Health care burden * Aetiology * Cardiomyopathy * Pathophysiology * Prognosis * Organization of care * Aims of management * Diagnosing & investigating * Signs & symptoms * Beware of alternative diagnoses * Start with the history * Useful diagnostic investigations * Open access to echocardiography * Special opinion * Linking diagnosis to treatment * General management * Lifestyle measures * Drug treatment * Diuretics * Neurohormonal antagonists * Treatment due to diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle * Treatment due to valve disease * Treatment of other causes of HF * Drug counselling * In summary * Surgery & other invasive interventions * Revascularization * Valve repair/replacement * Heart transplantation * Other procedures * Ongoing care * Monitoring patients with chronic, relatively stable HF * Managing patients with unstable, difficult-to-manage HF * Specialized care: the HF clinic * End-of-life care * Audits & standards * Conduct HF audit in general practice * Professional guidance.
Verlagsort | England |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie |
Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84628-425-2 / 1846284252 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84628-425-0 / 9781846284250 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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