Ep 197 Acute Heart Failure Risk Stratification and Disposition

Ep 197 Acute Heart Failure Risk Stratification and Disposition

Author: Dr. Anton Helman August 19, 2024 Duration: 1:14:44
We over-admit low risk acute heart failure patients and under-admit high risk heart failure patients. In this podcast we discuss the diagnostic accuracy of various clinical features, lab tests and imaging modalities for acute heart failure, the 3 validated risk stratification tools and a simple approach to PoCUS for the diagnosis and prognostication of acute heart failure in the ED to improve our diagnostic accuracy and disposition decisions for patients with acute heart failure... Help Support EM Cases by Giving a Donation here: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/donation/

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