Chronic HF
Chronic HF
- Interprofessional care
- Main treatment goals
- Treat the underlying cause and contributing factors
- Maximize CO
- Reduce symptoms
- Improve ventricular function
- Improve quality of life
- Preserve target organ function
- Improve mortality and morbidity
- Oxygen therapy
- Relieves dyspnea and fatigue
- Physical and emotional rest
- Conserve energy and decrease oxygen needs
- Dependent on severity of HF
- Structured exercise program
- CR associated with better outcomes
- CardioMems system
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
- Biventricular pacing/cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
- IABP and VADs as bridge to transplant (BTT) or as destination therapy (DT)