BookW. Frank Peacock, editor.
Contents:
Part 1. Administrative and Regulatory Issues / Society of Chest Pain Centers' Heart Failure Accreditation / Kay Styer Holmes and Arlene Mavko
The Economics and Reimbursement of Congestive Heart Failure / Sandra Sieck
Regulatory Requirements in Acute Heart Failure / Nancy M. Albert
Quality and Operational Metrics in Heart Failure / Phillip D. Levy and Matthew A. Wheatley
Interaction of Performance Measurements, Staffing, and Facility Requirements for the Heart Failure Observation Unit / Valorie Sweigart and Karen Krechmery
Part 2. Pathophysiology and Demographics / Heart Failure: Epidemiology and Demographics / Karina M. Soto-Ruiz
Pathophysiology of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure / Ezra A. Amsterdam, Kathleen L. Tong and Richard Summers
Part 3. Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Department Assessment and Treatment / The Out-of-Hospital Management of Acute Heart Failure / Marvin A. Wayne, Vincent N. Mosesso and A. Keith Wesley
Dyspnea Assessment and Airway Management in Acute Heart Failure Syndromes Patients / Masood Zaman and Peter S. Pang
Volume Assessment in the Emergency Department / Anna Marie Chang and Judd E. Hollander
Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Emergency Department Heart Failure / Yang Xue, Arrash Fard, Navaid Iqbal and Alan Maisel
Emergency Department Therapy of Acute Heart Failure / Phillip D. Levy
Part 4. Observation Unit Entry Treatment and Disposition / Observation Unit Admission Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria / Gregory J. Fermann and Sean P. Collins
Acute Heart Failure in Observation Unit Treatment Protocols / J. Douglas Kirk and Michael Clarke
Education Elements in the Observation Unit for Heart Failure Patients / Robin J. Trupp
Emergency Department and Observation Unit Discharge Criteria / Rachel Rockford and Deborah B. Diercks
Effective Discharge Planning / Ginger Conway
Outpatient Medication Titration in Acute Heart Failure / Khadijah Breathett and L. Kristin Newby
Part 5. Complications and Future Research/ Drugs to Avoid in Acute Heart Failure: Contraindicated Medications and Interactions / James McCord
Implications of Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure Management / Chad E. Darling and Richard V. Aghababian
Implantable Cardiac Devices / Brian Hiestand and William Abraham
Heart Failure and Kidney Disease: Management in the Short-Stay Unit / Shahriar Dadkhah and Korosh Sharain
Heart Failure Research in the Emergency Department and Observation Unit / Candace McNaughton, Patricia Fick and Alan Storrow
Appendix: Shared Practice Examples / Kay Styer Holmes.