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Settings and opportunities to detect heart failure |
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Settings and opportunities to detect heart failure
Heart failure shares symptoms with a variety of other conditions and as such there is an opportunity to increase awareness, provide education and upskilling in your setting
Settings for detecting symptomatic patients
- Primary care
- Community services (e.g. community matrons, district nurses, community COPD/diabetes etc)
- Emergency Department
- Secondary care specialities
- Patients attending cardiac investigations (if not already known as heart failure, ensure systems are in place for appropriate referral)
Opportunities for detecting symptomatic patients
- Annual health review/QOF – (consider prioritising patients with established disease; e.g. hypertension, diabetes, CKD, COPD, AF, thyroid disease)
- Care of frailty review (MDT review)
- Pharmacy/medicine review – for patients with polypharmacy and frailty consider a clinical review
- Specific case finding for undetected heart failure
- Acute admission to hospital - consider where appropriate, heart failure as a differential diagnosis
Contents:
- Detection
- Diagnosis
- Acute Heart Failure: Diagnosis and management
- Chronic heart failure: Management and treatment
- Discharge and follow-up
- Palliative and psychological care
- Digital support
In this section
- Detection - Home
- Rationale for detection
- Settings and opportunities
- Symptoms
- Chronic conditions and risk factors
- Undetected HF in GP registers
- Screening
- Resources for detection
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