Patterns of intensive care unit admissions in patients hospitalized for heart failure: Insights from the RO-AHFS registry

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 331-340

  Chioncel, Ovidiu ^a   Ambrosy, Andrew P ^b   Filipescu, Daniela ^a   Bubenek, Serban ^a   Vinereanu, Dragos ^c   Petris, Antoniu ^d   Collins, Sean P ^e   Macarie, Cezar ^a   Gheorghiade, Mihai ^f  

^a UMF Carol Davila   (Romania)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care   (Romania)

^d 'Sf Spiridon' Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute heart failure syndromes; hospitalized heart failure; ICU; risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; SODIUM; CARDIOTONIC AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGE; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UTILIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; RESUSCITATION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; ROMANIA; TRIAGE;

EID: 84926408239     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: 15582035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0000000000000030     Document Type: Article

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