Heart Failure: Providing Optimal Care

American Heart Association Monograph Series Univ. of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Text attempts to bridge the gap between science and practice for the physician treating patients suffering from heart failure symptoms. Discusses managed care and heart failure, living with heart failure, pharmacologic management, and surgical management. DNLM: Heart Failure, Congestive--therapy.

The objective of this text is to synthesise the research based clinical treatment strategies that have been found to be most effective in the clinical management of heart failure as a disease. Incorporating recommendations from state of the art guidelines, the text will comprehensively address both in-patient management of acute exacerbations, and out-patient management to improve survival, quality of life, and functional status.

The editors are active members of the American Heart Association and influential councils on clinical cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and have assembled a team of contributors prominent in the field of heart failure and transplantation. They aim, through this publication, to translate the findings of recent research into a practical clinical framework for physicians caring for patients on a daily basis.