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Froedtert Hospital Department of Nursing Grand Rounds

Froedtert Hospital, Department of Nursing – Grand Rounds - June 5^th & 8^th, 2009
How to Mend a Broken Heart: Heart Failure from a Nursing and Patient Perspective
Sarah Betthauser, BSN,RN; Sharron Coffie, MSN, RN, CNS; Jeri Smith, MSN,ACNS-BC; Sara Stalsberg, MSN, RN,CNS; Donald Tauger

Electronic Journals: 

American Heart Journal
American Journal of Cardiology
Cardiology
Cardiology Clinics
Circulation
Heart
Heart Failure Reviews
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Journal of Cardiac Failure

Braunwald’s Heart Disease: a textbook of cardiovascular medicine. Editors Peter Libby, et. al.

1. Bibbins-Domingo K, Pletcher MJ, Lin F, et al. Racial differences in incident heart failure among young adults. N Engl J Med. 2009;360(12):1179-1190.

2. Hunt SA, Abraham WT, Chin MH, et al. 2009 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;53(15):e1-90.

3. Krum H, Abraham WT. Heart failure. Lancet. 2009;373(9667):941-955.

4. Lavie CJ, Thomas RJ, Squires RW, Allison TG, Milani RV. Exercise training and cardiac rehabilitation in primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Mayo Clin Proc. 2009;84(4):373-383.

5. Fonarow GC, Abraham WT, Albert NM, et al. Influence of a performance-improvement initiative on quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF) Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(14):1493-1502.

6. Fonarow GC, Heywood JT, Heidenreich PA, Lopatin M, Yancy CW, ADHERE Scientific Advisory Committee and,Investigators. Temporal trends in clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes for heart failure hospitalizations, 2002 to 2004: findings from Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE). Am Heart J. 2007;153(6):1021-1028.

7. Hjalmarson A, Goldstein S, Fagerberg B, et al. Effects of controlled-release metoprolol on total mortality, hospitalizations, and well-being in patients with heart failure: the Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in congestive heart failure (MERIT-HF). MERIT-HF Study Group. JAMA. 2000;283(10):1295-1302.

8. Kleinpell R, Gawlinski A. Assessing outcomes in advanced practice nursing practice: the use of quality indicators and evidence-based practice. AACN Clin Issues. 2005;16(1):43-57.

9. Yancy CW, Fonarow GC, Albert NM, et al. Influence of patient age and sex on delivery of guideline-recommended heart failure care in the outpatient cardiology practice setting: findings from IMPROVE HF. Am Heart J. 2009;157(4):754-62.e2.

10. Yancy CW, Ghali JK, Braman VM, et al. Evidence for the continued safety and tolerability of fixed-dose isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine in patients with chronic heart failure (the extension to African-American Heart Failure Trial). Am J Cardiol. 2007;100(4):684-689.

11. Wheeler, E. Caring for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. Nursing Education Perspectives. 2004; 25(1). pp.16-21.

12. Heart Failure Guidelines: ACC/AHA 2005 guideline update for the diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure in the adult.  http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=7664

13. Hypertension Guidelines: Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=4771