relation: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/269007/
title: Practical outpatient management of worsening chronic heart failure
creator: Girerd, Nicolas
creator: Newton, Nathan
creator: Tartière, Jean-Michel
creator: Guijarro, Damien
creator: Jourdain, Patrick
creator: Damy, Thibaud
creator: Lamblin, Nicolas
creator: Bayes-Génis, Antoni
creator: Pellicori, Pierpaolo
creator: Januzzi, James
creator: Rossignol, Patrick
creator: Roubille, François
description: Management of worsening heart failure (WHF) has traditionally been hospital-based, but with the rising burden of HF, the pressure on health care systems exerted by this disease necessitates a different strategy than long (and costly) hospital stays. A strategy for outpatient intravenous (IV) diuretic treatment of WHF has been developed in certain American centers in the past 10 years, whereas European centers have been mostly favoring “classic” in-hospital management of WHF. Embracing novel, outpatient approaches for treating WHF could substantially reduce the burden on healthcare systems while improving patient's satisfaction and quality of life. The present article is intended to provide essential knowledge and practical guidelines aimed at helping clinicians implement these new ambulatory approaches using day hospital and/or at-home hospitalization. The topics addressed by our group of HF experts include the pathophysiological background of diuretic therapy, the most suitable profile of WHF that may be managed in an ambulatory setting, the pharmacological protocols that can be used, as well as a detailed description of healthcare structures that can be proposed to deliver these ambulatory care interventions. The practical aspects of day hospital and Hospital-at-Home (HaH) IV diuretics administration are specifically emphasized. The algorithm provided along with the practical IV diuretics protocols should assist HF clinicians in implementing this new approach in their local clinical setting.
publisher: Wiley
date: 2022-05
type: Articles
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc_4
identifier: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/269007/1/269007.pdf
identifier:   Girerd, N. et al.  (2022)  Practical outpatient management of worsening chronic heart failure.   European Journal of Heart Failure <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/European_Journal_of_Heart_Failure.html>, 24(5),  pp. 750-761.   (doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2503 <https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.2503>) (PMID:35417093)        
relation: 10.1002/ejhf.2503