Why the study?
Acute decompensated heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalisations with poor prognosis, and successful management remains challenging due to disease complexity and patient characteristics.
The authors recommend a three-step approach to acute decompensated heart failure management: complete decongestion, treating precipitants, and optimizing guideline-directed medical therapy.
May inform acute decompensated HF pathways; leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
Acute decompensated heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalisations worldwide, carries a poor prognosis and has a high recurrence rate. Successful management can be challenging due to the interplay between the complexity of the disease, its management and individual patient characteristics. We recommend three distinct components of in-hospital management to be addressed to optimise outcomes: (i) complete decongestion; (ii) identification and treatment of precipitants and (iii) optimisation of guideline-directed medical therapy.
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