Acute Heart Failure Risk Stratification: Can We Define Low Risk?

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-83

  Collins, Sean P ^a   Storrow, Alan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Emergency department; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATININE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; T WAVE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56049102583     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2008.08.010     Document Type: Review

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