Update 1990 pp 350-357 | Cite as

Management of Severe Heart Failure

  • T. H. LeJemtel
  • R. Nisi
  • E. H. Sonnenblick
Conference paper
Part of the Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine book series (UICM, volume 10)

Abstract

When undertaken in the setting of an intensive care unit (ICU), the therapeutic goals for patients suffering from severe heart failure are to immediately increase cardiac output without exacerbating or precipitating myocardial ischemia and to distribute the enhanced cardiac output to the kidneys, heart and brain.

Keywords

Severe Heart Failure Systemic Arterial Pressure Left Ventricular Filling Pressure Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Ventricular Filling Pressure 
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  • T. H. LeJemtel
  • R. Nisi
  • E. H. Sonnenblick

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