This review provides emergency department physicians with a framework for the efficient diagnosis and management of pediatric heart failure in structurally normal hearts.
May streamline ED evaluation of pediatric HF; leaves open prospective validation of the framework.
The recent studies reviewed here highlight the significant diagnostic and management challenges that pediatric heart failure presents given the variety and lack of specificity of its presenting signs, symptoms, and diagnostic work-up. This review provides the ED physician with a framework for understanding of pediatric heart failure to allow for efficient diagnosis and management of these patients. The primary focus of this review is heart failure in structurally normal hearts.
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