Heart failure
Subtitle: providing optimal care
By: edited by Mariell Jessup and Kathleen M. McCauley
Contributors: Wiley online library
Publisher: Futura
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Elmsford, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780470994757
Subjects: Prevention & control; Heart failure; Therapy; Insuffisance cardiaque; Heart Failure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley InterScience, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 20, 2007). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
Table of contents: title: Heart failure as a national health problem: the burden of heart failure / Arthur M. Feldman, Virginia Schneider, and Ozlem Soran; title: Heart failure guidelines and disease management / David W. Baker; title: Managed care and heart failure / Suzette Cardin; title: Defining heart failure: systolic versus diastolic dysfunction, differential diagnosis, initial testing / Mariell Jessup; title: Serial clinical assessment of the patient with heart failure / Lynne Warner Stevenson; title: Treatment goals for heart failure patients in critical care / Anna Gawlinski and Lynne Warner Stevenson; title: Managing complicated in-patients: comorbidities and the frail elderly / Lee R. Goldberg; title: Transition from hospital to home: interdisciplinary management models / Sara Paul and Kathleen M. McCauley; title: Living with heart failure: promoting adherence, managing symptoms, and optimizing function / Nancy M. Albert and Sara Paul.; title: Pharmacologic management: achieving target doses and managing interactions / David Rabin; title: Continuum of care: prevention to end of life / Salpy V. Pamboukian and Nancy M. Albert; title: Surgical management of heart failure / David Zeltsman, and Michael A. Acker; title: The management of heart failure's electrical complications: device therapy / John M. Fontaine; title: Moving ahead with heart failure: what does the future hold? / James B. Young.