Approach To Heart Failure - An overview
The topics covered in the presentation are as bellow
- General etiologies of cardiac failure
- Underlying cardiac disease
- Pathogenesis
- Forms of cardiac failure
- Approach to the patient
- Symptoms of heart failure
- Symptoms of predominant right-sided heart failure
- Brain natriuretic peptide (bnp)
- Framingham criteria for diagnosis of congestive heart failure
- Nyha grading
- Staging of systolic hf
- Measures for symptom relief
- Role of diuretics
- Furosemide, bumetanide, and torsemide
- Potassium-sparing diuretics
- Ace inhibitor in cardiac failure
- Beta blockers
- Enhancement of cardiac contractility
- Sympathomimetic amines
- Phosphodiesterase inhibitors
- Survival benefit of different drugs
- Drugs increasing mortality
- Ventricular resynchronization
- Anticoagulants
- Surgical therapy
- Newer rx modalities for adhf
- Prognosis