Search results for "Heart Failure"
Changes, challenges in treating heart failure
Wireless pulmonary artery haemodynamic monitoring in chronic heart failure: a randomised controlled trial. ... Ivabradine and outcomes in chronic heart failure (SHIFT): a randomised placebo-controlled study.
February 2016
Heart failure, part two
Heart failure, part two. Now it's time for the bummer news about heart failure (HF). ... But, as Philip Poole-Wilson, MD, said in his inimitable English accent about the exercise and heart failure study: "Safety without benefit is a bit dull, really.".
August 2019
QD: News Every Day--Cancer risk appears higher in heart failure patients
not have heart failure, after adjustment for BMI, smoking, and Charlson comorbidity index. ... non-cardiac morbidity and of cancer surveillance in the management of [heart failure] patients.".
August 2019
QD: News Every Day--9 performance measures for heart failure expand use of beta-blockers to inpatient care, among other recommendations
outcomes. "In order to improve the quality of heart failure care, one has to provide measures of quality. ... Eight measures from the previous heart failure performance measures set, which were released in 2005, were retired.
August 2019
K, kidneys, and ketoacidosis | Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 News | ACP Internist
King said. SGLT2 inhibitors, approved to treat diabetes, have shown positive effects on renal and cardiovascular outcomes and thus caused excitement among the relevant subspecialists.“ Endocrinologists, nephrologists, and heart failure docs
April 2019
FDA approves heart failure drug, looks into antiseptic safety
This update covers a warning that sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors can cause ketoacidosis, and approval of a drug that can reduce hospitalizations from worsening chronic heart failure. ... The drug was approved under priority review based on a
July 2015
No kidding
to have an accompanying editorial called“ Rethinking the focus of heart failure quality measures.” Both were authored by luminaries in the field. ... This is, of course, hard to pull off, because of the challenges associated with“ managing
August 2019
Requiem for ABC David
1. Admit: to medical surgical unit. 2. Because: diagnosis of congestive heart failure. ... Orders are different, of course, for congestive heart failure and community acquired pneumonia, for hip fractures and bowel obstructions and for exacerbations of
August 2019
Stroke news of the obvious
And finally, stroke patients who have heart failure are more likely to die in the hospital than stroke patients without heart failure. ... vs. someone without that extra condition.) Stroke heart failure patients also stayed in the hospital longer and
August 2019
Drawing lines
As often occurs with chronically ill elders, Milt winds up back in the hospital six weeks later with "congestive heart failure." His heart is not pumping blood effectively, so fluid is ... Without it, Milt will die due to kidney failure. Fortunately,
August 2019