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)