Heart failure – what the general physician needs to know
Eleanor C Wicks and Lewis C Davies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.16-1-9
Clin Med February 2016 Eleanor C Wicks
ADepartment of Cardiology, Bart’s Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK, and PhD, University College London, London, UK
Roles: consultant cardiologist
Lewis C Davies
BDepartment of Cardiology, and honorary senior lecturer, Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Bart’s Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Roles: consultant cardiologist
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vol. 16 no. 1 25-33
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- Published online February 1, 2016.
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- ADepartment of Cardiology, Bart’s Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK, and PhD, University College London, London, UK
- BDepartment of Cardiology, and honorary senior lecturer, Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Bart’s Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
- Address for correspondence: Dr E Wicks, Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit, Bart's Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK. Email: eleanor.wicks{at}nhs.net
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Heart failure – what the general physician needs to know
Eleanor C Wicks, Lewis C Davies
Clinical Medicine Feb 2016, 16 (1) 25-33; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.16-1-9
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- Introduction
- AHF guidelines
- Traditional drug therapies for CHF and recent updates
- Intravenous therapies in AHF
- Differentiating the aetiology of HF is important
- The use of devices in HF
- When to refer for transplantation and mechanical circulatory support
- The future of HF and service development
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