Search results for "Heart Failure"
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
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
Intensive uptitration of guideline-directed medications improved HF outcomes at 90 days
Decongestion and related markers were better in acute heart failure (HF) patients randomized to early and rapid uptitration of neurohormonal blockade during and after hospitalization versus those who got usual care, a post hoc analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/17/intensive-uptitration-of-guideline-directed-medications-improved-hf-outcomes-at-90-days.htm
17 Jul 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
Decongestion strategies inconsistently applied in U.S. patients hospitalized for heart failure
Estimated weight loss due to inpatient decongestion varied across 31 hospitals, with some patients gaining weight during admission, a cohort study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/decongestion-strategies-inconsistently-applied-in-us-patients-hospitalized-for-heart-failure.htm
15 May 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
AHA offers guidance on palliative pharmacotherapy for cardiovascular disease
A scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) calls for use of guideline-directed and evidence-based palliative therapies in end-stage heart failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, and other cardiac conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/10/aha-offers-guidance-on-palliative-pharmacotherapy-for-cardiovascular-disease.htm
10 Jul 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