Comprehensive in-hospital monitoring in acute heart failure: applications for clinical practice and future directions for research. A statement from the Acute Heart Failure Committee of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1081-1099

  Harjola, Veli Pekka ^a   Parissis, John ^b   Brunner La Rocca, Hans Peter ^c   Čelutkienė, Jelena ^d   Chioncel, Ovidiu ^e   Collins, Sean P ^f   De Backer, Daniel ^g   Filippatos, Gerasimos S ^b   Gayat, Etienne ^h   Hill, Loreena ⁱ   Lainscak, Mitja ^j,k   Lassus, Johan ^a   Masip, Josep ^l,m   Mebazaa, Alexandre ^n,o,p   Miró, Òscar ^l   Mortara, Andrea ^q   Mueller, Christian ^r   Mullens, Wilfried ^s   Nieminen, Markku S ^a   Rudiger, Alain ^t   Ruschitzka, Frank ^u   Seferovic, Petar M ^v   Sionis, Alessandro ^w   Vieillard Baron, Antoine ^x,y   Weinstein, Jean Marc ^z   de Boer, Rudolf A ^aa   Crespo Leiro, Maria G ^ab   Piepoli, Massimo ^ac   Riley, Jillian P ^ad   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^h APHP   (France)

ⁱ QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^j General Hospital Murska Sobota   (Slovenia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^m Hospital CIMA Sanitas   (Spain)

ⁿ ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^o Investigation Network Initiative Cardiovascular and Renal Clinical Trialists   (France)

^p UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^q Policlinico di Monza   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^s HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^t UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^u UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^w UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^x LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^y HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^z BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^aa UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^ab HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^ac GUGLIELMO DA SALICETO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^ad IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Heart failure; Inpatients; Monitoring, physiologic

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; TROPONIN;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY CARE UNIT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FLUID BALANCE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINE VOLUME; VIDEO MICROSCOPY; ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIOLOGY; EUROPE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; STANDARDS;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARDIOLOGY; EUROPE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 85046086239     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.1204     Document Type: Article

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