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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jessup, Mariell L.

McCauley, Kathleen M., 1949-

Series:

American Heart Association monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart failure.

Heart Failure--therapy.

Heart Failure--prevention & control.

Medical Subjects:

Heart Failure--therapy.

Heart Failure--prevention & control.

Physical Description:

x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Elmsford, N.Y. : Blackwell Publishing/Futura, [2003]

Summary:

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 comprehensively addresses 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 team of contributors prominent in the field of heart failure and transplantation. They aim, through this publication, to translate the findings of recent research into a practical clinical framework for physicians caring for patients on a daily basis.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Heart Failure as a National Health Problem: The Burden of Heart Failure / Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD, Virginia Schneider, RN, Ozlem Soran, MD 1

Chapter 2. Heart Failure Guidelines and Disease Management / David W. Baker, MD, MPH 21

Chapter 3. Managed Care and Heart Failure / Suzette Cardin, RN, DNSc, FAAN 39

Chapter 4. Defining Heart Failure: Systolic versus Diastolic Dysfunction, Differential Diagnosis, Initial Testing / Mariell Jessup, MD, FACC, FAHA 51

Chapter 5. Serial Clinical Assessment of the Patient with Heart Failure / Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD 71

Chapter 6. Treatment Goals for Heart Failure Patients in Critical Care / Anna Gawlinski, RN, DNSc, CS, ACNP, Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD 83

Chapter 7. Managing Complicated In-Patients: Comorbidities and the Frail Elderly / Lee R. Goldberg, MD, MPH, FACC 115

Chapter 8. Transition from Hospital to Home: Interdisciplinary Management Models / Sara Paul, RN, MSN, FNP, Kathleen M. McCauley PhD, RN, CS, FAAN, FAHA 129

Chapter 9. Living with Heart Failure: Promoting Adherence, Managing Symptoms, and Optimizing Function / Nancy M. Albert, MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CNA, Sara Paul, RN, MSN, FNP 145

Chapter 10. Pharmacologic Management: Achieving Target Doses and Managing Interactions / David Rabin, MD, FACC 165

Chapter 11. Continuum of Care: Prevention to End of Life / Salpy V. Pamboukian, MD, FACC, Nancy M. Albert, MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CNA 181

Chapter 12. Surgical Management of Heart Failure / David Zeltsman, MD, Michael A. Acker, MD 207

Chapter 13. The Management of Heart Failure's Electrical Complications: Device Therapy / John M. Fontaine, MD 217

Chapter 14. Moving Ahead with Heart Failure: What Does the Future Hold? / James B. Young, MD 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405103752

OCLC:

52471287