Emergency Medicine Reports – July 23, 2006
July 23, 2006
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Managing Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: Part II
The treatment of acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF) has changed dramatically in the past decade. As discussed in Part I, there is a new understanding of the pathophysiology and a significant improvement in our ability to diagnose heart failure with BNP and NT-pro BNP testing.