[PDF] A Practical Guide To Heart Failure In Older People eBook

Author : Chris Ward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470742938

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Heart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty percent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This figure is likely to increase significantly in the next two decades. The prognosis is worse than that of most cancers and heart failure is the commonest reason for hospital admission in the over 65s. The problems associated with treating heart failure in older patients are more diverse and complex than in those who are younger. The diagnosis in older patients is easily overlooked and as they were excluded from most heart failure treatment trials there has been a reluctance to treat them optimally (fewer than 20% are prescribed conventional medicines). They have multiple co-morbidities which are poorly managed, they are repeatedly hospitalised, and suffer social isolation. These important age-related treatment and management problems have been largely ignored and this book aims to redress the balance. It provides a concise, comprehensive account of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, management and end-of-life care of elderly patients with heart failure, based on published studies. A Practical Guide to Heart Failure in Older People is essential reading for geriatricians, cardiologists, general hospital physicians, family practitioners and specialist nurses. • Specifically addresses the particular needs of the elderly, a largely ignored group who constitute the majority of patients with heart failure • Presents a concise yet comprehensive account of the evidence relating to the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart failure in this population • Improves awareness of the various roles within the management team

Author : Stuart D. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199917086

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Heart Failure synthesizes established clinical guidelines for the management of heart failure in an easy-to-use handbook for busy clinicians.

Author : Stuart Katz MD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199397368

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Clinical practice consensus guidelines for management of heart failure are available from the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and European Society of Cardiology. The guidelines from these organizations, based on evidence from clinical trials and expert agreement, are largely concordant and provide useful information for practitioners. Yet, the organization of the guidelines may confound efforts by a practitioner to determine which specific intervention, or combination of interventions, are most appropriate for an individual patient. As part of the Oxford American Cardiology Library, Heart Failure utilizes the staging of heart failure proposed by the ACC/AHA guidelines as a framework to develop a systematic approach for diagnosis and treatment across a broad spectrum of clinical presentations. Each chapter addresses a different stage in the progression of heart failure and provides a patient-centered description of the appropriate diagnostic and treatment options for that setting. Each chapter also incorporates discussion of the diagnosis and treatment options for both low ejection fraction heart failure patients and preserved ejection fraction heart failure patients, of which the latter group comprises at least 50% of all heart failure cases in clinical practice. Heart Failure restructures the information in the clinical guidelines to a format that is more accessible and clinically useful to practitioners.

Author : Ranjit N. Ratnaike
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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This book is a comprehensive guide to a range of medical conditions and pertinent topics to improve the quality of life of older people. The book adopts a practical, systematic approach, with easy access to medical and other problems of importance to the elderly.

Author : Martin R. Cowie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Heart failure accounts for between 1% and 2% of health care expenditure in developed countries and up to 5% 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.

Author : Andreas P. Kalogeropoulos
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0429521286

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This "patient-oriented" book was written as a meeting ground for practicing clinicians, allied health professionals, and clinical researchers to provide a practical guide for the contemporary assessment and management of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy. It revolves around broad patient scenarios to elegantly (or expertly) guide diagnostic and management strategies. Combining the talents of over one-hundred experts in the field, the book also endeavors to challenge the reader with areas of current controversies and opportunities for clinical investigation with the goals of both orienting clinicians and stimulating their research passions. Key Features Provides practical guidance based on real-life heart failure scenarios Discusses both acute and chronic care patient-oriented scenarios Covers up-to-date and novel concepts in heart failure Features the perspectives of current debates and controversies in heart failure Highlights the opportunities for research in this field

Author : Colin A. J. Farquharson
Publisher :
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781446759486

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This handbook is a clinically-focused guide for any healthcare professional who managers heart failure patients. It gives 'no-nonsense' back-to-basics practical advice on how to manage the common symptoms and complications of end-stage heart failure.

Author : William T. Abraham
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0071593217

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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 on 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

Author : Alexandre Mebazaa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1846287820

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For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study and this is the first book to cover extensively the diagnosis and management of this complex condition. The book reflects the considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts which have been proposed in the last 3-4 years looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure.