Clinical effects and safety of different strategies for administering intravenous diuretics in acutely decompensated heart failure: A randomised clinical trial

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 706-713

  Llorens, Pere ^a   Miró, Òscar ^b   Herrero, Pablo ^c   Martín Sánchez, Francisco Javier ^d   Jacob, Javier ^e   Valero, Amparo ^f   Alonso, Héctor ^g   Pérez Durá, María José ^h   Noval, Antonio ⁱ   Gil Román, José Juan ^c   Zapater, Pedro ^a   Llanos, Lucía ^a   Gil, Víctor ^b   Perelló, Rafel ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; FUROSEMIDE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIURETIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRACKLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIURESIS; DIURETIC THERAPY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD RENAL IMPAIRMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARALLEL DESIGN; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINE VOLUME; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART FAILURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; DIURETICS; FEMALE; FUROSEMIDE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84901301317     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2013-202526     Document Type: Article

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