Heart Failure: a Practical Approach to Treatment

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The definitive one-stop guide to treating -- and preventing -- heart failure

This practical reference provides all the expert guidance and up-to-the-minute clinical perspectives you need to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with heart failure.A major focus of the book is integration of various management approaches to maximize patient benefit. Coverage begins with a brief introduction to the incidence and causes of heart failure, then quickly moves into a more thorough clinical overview of symptom evaluation, pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment methods, hospitalization, surgical treatments, and more.

Features:

• Clear, step-by-step coverage of prevention and all treatment modalities with evidence-based recommendations
• Full examination of the types of heart failure, prevalence, morbidity and associated co-morbidities, mortality, risk factors, etiologies, cardiomyopathies, and pathophysiology
• Key perspectives on the use of ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, aldosterone antagonists, IV vasoactive medications, diuretics, digitalis, surgical procedures and devices, and more
• Need-to-know procedures for patient evaluation
• Heart failure disease management programs and pathways of care that can be applied in any practice setting
• Clinically relevant diagrams, figures, and algorithms

William T. Abraham, MD, FACP, FACC, FAHA, is Professor of Internal Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology; Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; Deputy Director, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute; The Ohio State University, Columbus

Henry Krum, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, Professor of Medicine; Chair of Medical Therapeutics, Monash University; Director, NHMRC CCRE in Therapeutics, Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Henry Krum, MBBS, PhD Professor and Director NHMRC CCRE in Therapeutics Monash University/Alfred Hospital Commercial Road Melbourne, Victoria, Australia