Success With Heart Failure Revised

Success With Heart Failure Revised
Author: Marc Silver
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-10-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780738206004

Heart-healthy advice from one of the country's leading experts on congestive heart failure

Success with Heart Failure (mass mkt ed)

Success with Heart Failure (mass mkt ed)
Author: Marc Silver
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780738210728

This new and improved edition of Success With Heart Failure gives readers enlightened and compassionate insight and important tips for treating this prevalent disease, including information on: --The similarities and differences between heart failure and heart attack --The role of heart transplantation to treat heart failure --State-of-the-art implantation treatments --The psychological effect of a prognosis of heart failure --The importance of a prescribed regimen of diet and exercise "An excellent resource for patients and doctors dealing with heart failure." -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author, Love, Medicine, and Miracles "Clearly, practically, and interestingly written; positive and encouraging." -- The Permanente Journal Winter 2003

Success With Heart Failure

Success With Heart Failure
Author: Marc A. Silver
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-08-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780306459856

Now available in a new and updated paperback edition, this book is a great guide for one of America's major health problems, and helps even more of five million Americans who suffer from it.

Establishing a Heart Failure Program

Establishing a Heart Failure Program
Author: Michael McIvor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780470766316

“. . . every critical examination of HF therapy in the United States has documented that we are not using all the weapons in our arsenal. We know what works, yet we are not systematically applying these proven therapies.” -- from the Introduction If you are interested in a better way to treat heart failure, this book is for you. Dr. Michael McIvor – who has taught thousands of healthcare professionals how to effectively care for patients with chronic HF through CME symposia – takes a logical, step-by-step approach to setting up and operating the kind of program that reduces hospital admissions and improves patient care. Establishing a Heart Failure Program: The Essential Guide answers the different questions posed by physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and hospital administrators, all of whom need to work as a team to achieve success. The three major sections of the book address: Taking the first steps toward building your heart failure program - developing a business plan, choosing your model of care, and making accurate financial projections Assembling the pieces of your program – managers, front line staff, and the physical facility Day-to-day operations A companion website presents forms you can download and use in your own heart failure center. Drawing from experience, Dr. McIvor helps you avoid common problems by identifying potential problems and sharing advice that has proven effective to your colleagues. He gives you the essential tools – unavailable elsewhere – to set up and maintain a heart failure program that achieves superior clinical outcomes.

Heart Failure

Heart Failure
Author: Patrick M. McCarthy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1405181346

Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across multiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniques pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored and explained in this text. Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how an interdisciplinary team works together to: arrive at a proper diagnosis initiate medical therapy make decisions regarding the best use of percutaneous therapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use of mechanical circulatory support devices and transplantation. Throughout the book, they present the most updated evidence for both drug trials and surgical trials. They emphasize the benefits of performing the most complete surgery that is practical, then continuing medical therapy. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of treatment, but the authors recognize that the best way to manage an individual patient is often to adapt a variety of different therapies. They state their opinions clearly, identifying which part of care is science and which is art. Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach is a true collaboration that helps you identify the most effective strategies – operative interventions, pacing and ICD treatment, new diagnostic tools, and pharmacotherapeutic developments – and implement them for your patients.

Acute Heart Failure

Acute Heart Failure
Author: Alexandre Mebazaa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 922
Release: 2009-12-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1846287820

For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study and this is the first book to cover extensively the diagnosis and management of this complex condition. The book reflects the considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts which have been proposed in the last 3-4 years looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure.

Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book

Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book
Author: G. Michael Felker
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323609880

Up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive, Heart Failure, 4th Edition, provides the clinically relevant information you need to effectively manage and treat patients with this complex cardiovascular problem. This fully revised companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease helps you make the most of new drug therapies such as angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors (ARNIs), recently improved implantable devices, and innovative patient management strategies. Led by internationally recognized heart failure experts Dr. G. Michael Felker and Dr. Douglas Mann, this outstanding reference gives health care providers the knowledge to improve clinical outcomes in heart failure patients. Focuses on a clinical approach to treating heart failure, resulting from a broad variety of cardiovascular problems. Covers the most recent guidelines and protocols, including significant new updates to ACC, AHA, and HFSA guidelines. Covers key topics such as biomarkers and precision medicine in heart failure and new data on angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitors (ARNIs). Contains four new chapters: Natriuretic Peptides in Heart Failure; Amyloidosis as a Cause of Heart Failure; HIV and Heart Failure; and Neuromodulation in Heart Failure. Covers the pathophysiological basis for the development and progression of heart failure. Serves as a definitive resource to prepare for the ABIM’s Heart Failure board exam. 2016 British Medical Association Award: First Prize, Cardiology (3rd Edition).

Strategic Heart Failure

Strategic Heart Failure
Author: Marc Silver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2020-09-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781393833543

Written by one of the country's leading experts on Heart Failure, this completely new book provides a personalized approach, information and advice, guiding you and your family towards getting optimal heart failure care. Heart failure still affects over 6 million Americans, fill our hospitals and consumes enormous healthcare resources in the US and worldwide. Much of the impact of heart failure is lack of process and coordination of care with patients firmly inserted as team members. Dr. Silver says, "Strategic Heart Failure is a distillation of how my team and I helped patients and improved their outcomes for almost 4 decades. I want to share this approach directly with patients; they can help lead their healthcare, understand how decisions are made and improve the entire process of heart failure care." Understanding of a few fundamentals of heart failure care, especially the metrics and language that guideline directed care is crafted from, patients and families can not only join their care team but become the CEO! This Strategic approach moves people with heart failure from patients to partners within a caring, coordinated and engaged teams. Four prior editions of his books, Success with Heart Failure, elevated the understanding of the heart failure syndrome among thousands worldwide. His motivation for Strategic Heart Failure was his realization that his work on clinical trials, research, training other men and women professionals, serving on national guideline committees, being an Editor- in-Chief of a heart failure journal and even being one of the first Board Certified Fellows in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant was not enough. Even having one of the finest and most dedicated teams was not enough. It is critical for: The patient to be involved The patient to be the team leader The patient to speak the "Heart Failure" language and understand the rationale and process for every life impacting decision. Included is: Where to start even before deciding on drugs and devices? Who should be on your team? What is the Patient Profile and why it is essential for all team members to use? What are the various classifications of heart failure and why it matters? What does HFrEF, HFpEF and HFmEF mean and why does it matter? Why the majority of patients with or at risk for heart failure may not know of their risk? How to use published heart failure guidelines? What other chronic diseases commonly overlap with heart failure? What are biomarkers and how should they be used? And much, much more...including information on COVID-19, SGLT2 inhibiting drugs, lifesaving medicines including ARNIs, and technologies you may not be aware of such as blood volume analysis. And the truth is that Strategic Heart Failure is an approach that is of value to anyone with heart failure but also can be applied to any other chronic disease. So, let's get Strategic!