Search results for "Heart Failure"
Periop cardiovascular guideline updated, calls for avoiding overscreening
The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and other societies released new recommendations on evaluating and managing cardiovascular risk in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/02/periop-cardiovascular-guideline-updated-calls-for-avoiding-overscreening.htm
2 Oct 2024
Medications that can exacerbate heart failure often continued despite heart failure hospitalization
Many heart failure patients were still prescribed albuterol, metformin, or diltiazem at discharge, as well as many other medications on the American Heart Association's list of drugs that can precipitate or induce heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/13/3.htm
13 Nov 2019
Getting worse at heart failure
Despite advances in drugs and guidelines, heart failure mortality is on the rise. An expert researcher offers some solutions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/19/getting-worse-at-heart-failure.htm
19 Jun 2024
Meta-analysis compares mortality benefits of heart failure treatment combinations
Patients taking an angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor, beta-blocker, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor showed the greatest reduction in risk of death, the analysis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/15/4.htm
15 Dec 2021
A quick heart failure stay
Heart failure patients who would typically be admitted were treated instead on a short-stay unit in a recent project.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/13/a-quick-heart-failure-stay.htm
13 Mar 2024
Education, feedback for clinicians did not affect inpatient or postdischarge heart failure outcomes
An intervention targeting hospital clinicians had no significant effect on time to first heart failure rehospitalization or death or quality-of-care scores among patients discharged after hospitalization for acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, a recent trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/04/3.htm
4 Aug 2021
Physical rehab safe, effective after HF hospitalization regardless of AF status
Older patients with and without atrial fibrillation (AF) had similar improvements in physical function after completing a rehab program focused on strength, balance, mobility, and endurance that began as soon as safely possible after admission for heart failure (HF) and continued following discharge, a trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/25/physical-rehab-safe-effective-after-hf-hospitalization-regardless-of-af-status.htm
25 Sep 2024
Discharge of heart failure patients to settings not recommended by therapists linked to increased readmission risk
Patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure who were discharged to a less intensive postacute setting than that recommended by physical and occupational therapists were more likely to be readmitted within 30 days than those discharged according to recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/04/2.htm
4 Aug 2021
Scientific statement addresses kidney dysfunction in advanced HF
The American Heart Association offered advice on evaluating and managing kidney dysfunction in patients with advanced heart failure (HF), including which biomarkers to use in hospitalized patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/18/scientific-statement-addresses-kidney-dysfunction-in-advanced-hf.htm
18 Sep 2024
Beta-blockers after discharge associated with improved outcomes in older patients with heart failure
Ninety-day mortality and readmission rates were significantly lower in Medicare patients who received a beta-blocker after hospital discharge for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction than in those who did not, even if they were 75 years of age and older.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/06/16/2.htm
16 Jun 2021