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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Drug And Device Selection In Heart Failure 1St Edition by PRAKASH C DEEDWANIA
Heart failure is a major public health problem that is growing across the world and has become a leading cause of hospitalization in the elderly with more than 1 million admissions every year in the US medicare population. Clinicians frequently encounter patients with heart failure in their everyday practice. The prognosis of heart failure although much improved (in recent years) still remains worse than many cancers. Appropriate treatment designed to prevent and treat heart failure can significantly reduce the associated high morbidity and mortality. However with the expanding pharmacopeia of drug therapy and the use of various devices selection of an appropriate therapeutic strategy for a given patient has become quite challenging. This comprehensive monograph on Drug and Device Selection in Heart Failure is designed to provide a series of state of the art reviews on the most important topics that will help educate and equip the clinician with the appropriate knowledge base to select the best evidence based therapy for patients with heart failure.
Key Features:-
- A comprehensive monograph targeted towards the practicing clinician caring for patients with heart f
- Relevant scientific discussions integrated throughout with a focus on providing the latest therapeut
- Designed to provide state of the art reviews on the most important topics that will help educate and
- A clear approach that helps select the best evidence based therapy for patients with heart failure
- Provides an elaborate discussion of the renewed understanding of the pathophysiology of heart failu
- Describes the drug groups and drugs useful in the management of heart failure supported by evidence