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Heart Failure
In this chapter, you will find Canadian guidelines for both acute and chronic management of heart failure. We have also provided you with links to scoring tools to assess a patient’s risk of mortality and hospitalization followed by relative benefit patients will receive with certain drug therapies.
Assess the risk of mortality at year 1 and 3 in patients with.
Type of Resource
Scoring tool
Included
Tool consists of risk factors associated with mortality in heart failure.
By selecting a drug therapy you want to start your patient on (ie. ACEI/BB), the tool will provide the patients new risk of mortality in 1 and 3 years.
Student Bottom Line
Use this scoring tool to assess the risks and benefits to starting patients on recommended heart failure drug therapy.
Assess the risk of mortality and hospitalization at 1-5 years in patients with heart failure. This tool then determines the relative benefit patients will receive if started on recommended drug therapy.
Type of Resource
Scoring tool
Included
Tool consists of risk factors associated with mortality and hospitalization in heart failure.
By selecting a drug therapy you want to start your patient on (ie. ACEI/BB), the tool will provide the patients new risk of mortality and hospitalization at years 1 to 5.
Student Bottom Line
Use this scoring tool to assess the risks and benefits to starting patients on recommended heart failure drug therapy.
The Canadian Cardiovascular Society – Acute Heart Failure Guidelines
Purpose
Guide treatment recommendations for patients presenting with acute heart failure.
Type of Resource
Summarized guidelines
Included
Diagnosis/ Investigations
Treatment algorithms
Dosing recommendations
Student Bottom Line
The preferred resource to guide treatment for patients in acute heart failure. The recommendations are very concise and algorithms are simple to read. For more details and information, the full guidelines are preferred.
The Canadian Cardiovascular Society – Chronic Heart Failure Guidelines
Purpose
Guide treatment recommendations for patients with longstanding heart failure
Type of Resource
Summarized guidelines
Included
Pharmacological recommendations for both HFrER and HFpEF
Student Bottom Line
The preferred resource to guide treatment for patients in acute heart failure. The recommendations are very concise and algorithms are simple to read. For more details and information, the full guidelines are preferred.
