Chapter 24, Problem 3O

Summary Introduction

To identify:

The approach of treatment of heart failure by American Heart Association (AHA) and American college of Cardiology (ACCF) guidelines for diagnosis and management of heart failure in adults.

Concept introduction:

The heart failure may not be of any kind of disease but can be of any clinical syndrome that is caused by different types of cardiac dysfunction. The heart failure is termed as a failure of the heart to meet the demands of the body. Many different kinds of stimuli like hypertension, obesity, smoking, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, and hypervolemia can trigger heart failure. Inotropic drugs, positive and negative chronotropic drugs, and dromotropic drugs are four classes of drug used to treat a heart failure.