A simple tool using readily available data can accurately estimate the 30-day mortality risk for patients admitted to the emergency department with acute heart failure. Emergency department physicians may consider using this tool to inform clinical decisions.
Acute heart failure accounts for more than 1 million hospitalizations in the United States and Europe, and about 90 percent of patients visit the emergency department for their symptoms.
Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a condition in which the heart fails to work adequately as a pump that can deliver oxygen rich blood to the body.
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‘The tool was accurate in predicting mortality risk of patients with acute heart failure.’
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Although decision making in the emergency department is critically important, emergency physicians currently do not stratify patients by risk group (low risk, intermediate risk, high risk, and very high risk). While several acute heart failure risk scores are available, a more reliable tool is needed.
Researchers for the Spanish Ministry of Health sought to predict mortality from heart failure using data from an established registry comprised of 34 Spanish emergency departments with diverse patient and facility characteristics.
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Stem cell therapy for heart failure was safe with no adverse effects and significant improvement in the hearts ability to pump blood.
To create the prediction tool model, the researchers chose 13 prognostic variables and tested them against outcomes in a cohort of 4,867 consecutive emergency department patients admitted during 2009 to 2011. Then, the outcomes were tested again in an independent validation population of 3,229 patients gathered 3 years later from the same emergency departments.
All of the variables chosen are readily available and familiar, except for one, and an online calculator was developed to make the tool easy for physicians to use.
The tool proved to be very accurate for predicting mortality risk, especially for the 10 percent of patients at very high risk (around 45 percent) for death at 30 days and in the 40 percent of patients at low risk (less than 2 percent). Identification of both groups has important management implications.
Source: Eurekalert
Heart Failure Treatment Effective With Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
Stem cell therapy for heart failure was safe with no adverse effects and significant improvement in the hearts ability to pump blood.
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To create the prediction tool model, the researchers chose 13 prognostic variables and tested them against outcomes in a cohort of 4,867 consecutive emergency department patients admitted during 2009 to 2011. Then, the outcomes were tested again in an independent validation population of 3,229 patients gathered 3 years later from the same emergency departments.
All of the variables chosen are readily available and familiar, except for one, and an online calculator was developed to make the tool easy for physicians to use.
The tool proved to be very accurate for predicting mortality risk, especially for the 10 percent of patients at very high risk (around 45 percent) for death at 30 days and in the 40 percent of patients at low risk (less than 2 percent). Identification of both groups has important management implications.
Source: Eurekalert
Uncontrolled Hypertension Linked With Heart Failure Risk
One of the most common lifestyle diseases today, hypertension affects every third person in the country and it can trigger heart failure slowly over time.
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