Description
If you understand heart failure, you understand cardiology
This book applies practical clinical concepts to the latest four-stage model of heart failure from preclinical risk and early asymptomatic disease to classic symptomatic heart failure and finally advanced heart failure. This framework emphasizes a tailored approach to ongoing heart failure assessment to guide therapy and improve outcomes.
Features:
- Illustrated with over 250 full-color figures
- Specific recommendations backed by clinical trial data
- Practical algorithms for diagnosis and therapy
Topics include:
- Prevention of heart failure
- Identification and treatment of structural heart disease prior to heart failure
- How to combine lifestyle changes, medications, and devices to improve outcomes
- Reversing decompensated heart failure
- Key indicators of advanced heart failure and appropriate treatment options
- Emerging new therapies