prognosis of emergency room stabilization of decompensated congestive heart failure with high dose lasix

Prognosis of emergency room stabilization of decompensated congestive heart failure with high dose lasix

Objective: Congestive heart failure (CHF) has become one of the most important health care problems in western countries. This article focuses on the outpatient diagnosis and management of heart failure. We want to compare the outcome of patients who were treated with high dose diuretics in the emergency department (ED) without admission with patients who were admitted to hospi...

Challenges in the Management of Acutely Decompensated Congestive Heart Failure: Disposition Decisions in the Emergency Department

Tibe V ~ P n2jority ofpatients wkio presmt to the Emergency Se2adment (ED) wib deco~ykpensated heal$ faikme are acbmtted to the hospital, despite increasing pressure tc contain cost Approp~ate decisian makk g h &e E3 1s p x m o m t , O ~ V I O ~ W ! ~ very hpOdmt for bizpostic and xherapeutic manmvers bst also tr~'ae for patient ddispos~t~on. One could argu~e that patient dispssition, not marag...

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CHILDREN: A SURVEY OF 114 PATIENTS

During a period of four years between June, IS, 1988 to June, IS, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were admitted to the pediatric department of Taleghani General Hospital. During the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and CHF was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. Congenital heart disease (CHO) w...

Treatment of severe decompensated heart failure with high-dose intravenous nitroglycerin: a feasibility and outcome analysis.

STUDY OBJECTIVE We perform a feasibility and outcome assessment of the treatment of severe decompensated heart failure with high-dose nitroglycerin. METHODS This study was designed as a nonrandomized, open-label, single-arm study of high-dose nitroglycerin. Patients with hypertension (systolic blood pressure > or = 160 mm Hg or mean arterial pressure > or = 120 mm Hg) who were refractory to i...

Stabilization of the Congestive Heart Failure Patient in the Er

Sex differences in the prognosis of congestive heart failure.

Heart Failure To the Editor: I read with interest the article by Simon et al1 in the January 23, 2001, issue of Circulation on gender differences in the prognosis of heart failure. I would like to bring 2 points to the authors’ attention. The first point relates to the authors’ statement comparing their data with that of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) trial, ie, that all pa...