Emerging trends in the management of heart failure: Beta blocker therapy

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 135-148

  Sauls, Jenny L ^a   Rone, Tom ^b  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; BISOPROLOL FUMARATE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CARVEDILOL; DIGITALIS; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; PLACEBO;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANASARCA; ANEMIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHMA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BACKACHE; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG COST; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLUCOSURIA; GOUT; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INJURY; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG EDEMA; MALAISE; MELENA; MIGRAINE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERIODONTITIS; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHARYNGITIS; PROTEINURIA; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SOMNOLENCE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STOMACH DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 14744302816     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2004.10.002     Document Type: Review

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