Diagnosing acute heart failure in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

JL Martindale, A Wakai, SP Collins… - … emergency …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
heart failure (AHF) is one of the most common diagnoses assigned to emergency department
(… Despite its high prevalence in the emergency setting, the diagnosis of AHF in ED patients …

Acute heart failure in the emergency department: Short and long‐term outcomes of elderly patients with heart failure

JA Ezekowitz, JA Bakal, P Kaul… - … of heart failure, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… In this large, unique population-based analysis of elderly patients presenting to the emergency
department for heart failure, we describe the characteristics and outcomes of a previously …

Does this dyspneic patient in the emergency department have congestive heart failure?

CS Wang, JM FitzGerald, M Schulzer, E Mak, NT Ayas - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
heart failure in adult patients presenting with dyspnea to the emergency department.Data …
Data SynthesisMany features increased the probability of heart failure, with the best feature …

The burden of acute heart failure on US emergency departments

AB Storrow, CA Jenkins, WH Self, PT Alexander… - JACC: Heart Failure, 2014 - jacc.org
… acute heart failure (AHF) are originally evaluated and managed in the emergency department
… Of the $39.2 billion dollars spent on heart failure care in the United States in 2010, hospital …

Management of heart failure in the emergency department setting: an evidence-based review of the literature

B Long, A Koyfman, M Gottlieb - The Journal of emergency medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
… Acute heart failure (AHF) is a common presentation to the emergency department (ED),
with the potential to … It is important to tailor treatments to the appropriate type of heart failure. …

Characteristics and treatment of patients with heart failure in the emergency department

JD Welsh, RM Heiser, MP Schooler… - Journal of Emergency …, 2002 - Elsevier
… Participants in this study appropriately sought treatment in the emergency department for
their heart failure symptoms, as evidenced by an 88% admission rate. However, even with the …

Is hospital admission for heart failure really necessary? The role of the emergency department and observation unit in preventing hospitalization and rehospitalization

SP Collins, PS Pang, GC Fonarow, CW Yancy… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
… Approximately 800,000 times a year, an emergency physician admits a patient with
symptomatic heart failure (HF). Yet only a minority of emergency department patients with HF are …

Outcomes after emergency department discharge with a primary diagnosis of heart failure

JE Rame, MA Sheffield, DL Dries, EB Gardner… - American heart …, 2001 - Elsevier
… setting from the emergency department (ED) with a primary diagnosis of heart failure (CHF)
are not well known. Reflecting this paucity of data, the American Heart Association/American …

Approach to acute heart failure in the emergency department

BR Hunter, J Martindale, O Abdel-Hafez… - Progress in cardiovascular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Emergency department Diagnosis and management begins in the emergency department
(ED) for the vast majority of patients hospitalized with acute heart failure (AHF). Unfortunately, …

Short‐term mortality risk in emergency department acute heart failure

W Frank Peacock, R Nowak… - … Emergency …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
heart failure (AHF). The purpose was to describe the accuracy of several biomarkers for
predicting short‐term death rates in patients diagnosed with AHF in the emergency department (…