Recommendations on pre-hospital & early hospital management of acute heart failure: a consensus paper from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Emergency Medicine and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine
Alexandre Mebazaa, M Birhan Yilmaz, Phillip Levy, Piotr Ponikowski, W Frank Peacock, Said Laribi, Arsen D Ristic, Ekaterini Lambrinou, Josep Masip, Jillian P Riley, Theresa McDonagh, Christian Mueller, Christopher deFilippi, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Holger Thiele, Massimo F Piepoli, Marco Metra, Aldo Maggioni, John McMurray, Kenneth Dickstein, Kevin Damman, Petar M Seferovic, Frank Ruschitzka, Adelino F Leite-Moreira, Abdelouahab Bellou, Stefan D Anker, Gerasimos Filippatos, Alexandre Mebazaa, M Birhan Yilmaz, Phillip Levy, Piotr Ponikowski, W Frank Peacock, Said Laribi, Arsen D Ristic, Ekaterini Lambrinou, Josep Masip, Jillian P Riley, Theresa McDonagh, Christian Mueller, Christopher deFilippi, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Holger Thiele, Massimo F Piepoli, Marco Metra, Aldo Maggioni, John McMurray, Kenneth Dickstein, Kevin Damman, Petar M Seferovic, Frank Ruschitzka, Adelino F Leite-Moreira, Abdelouahab Bellou, Stefan D Anker, Gerasimos Filippatos
Abstract
Acute heart failure is a fatal syndrome. Emergency physicians, cardiologists, intensivists, nurses and other health care providers have to cooperate to provide optimal benefit. However, many treatment decisions are opinion-based and few are evidenced-based. This consensus paper provides guidance to practicing physicians and nurses to manage acute heart failure in the pre-hospital and hospital setting. Criteria of hospitalization and of discharge are described. Gaps in knowledge and perspectives in the management of acute heart failure are also detailed. This consensus paper on acute heart failure might help enable contiguous practice.
Keywords: Acute heart failure; cardiogenic shock; diuretics; vasodilators.
© 2015 The Authors. European Journal of Heart Failure © 2015 European Society of Cardiology.
Source: PubMed