Tag: Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

The ADVOR Trial: Acetazolamide in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

by Salim Rezaie posted September 15, 2022 No Comments

Background: Patients presenting with acute exacerbations of congestive heart failure are frequently treated with intravenous loop diuretics. Despite being treated with loop diuretics, the problem is many are discharged from the hospital with residual clinical signs of volume overload despite …

CardiovascularEndocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and Electrolytes

Morphine Associated with Mortality in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

by Salim Rezaie posted June 8, 2015 No Comments

Background: Intravenous morphine use has been reported in nearly one of seven patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). I have anecdotally, even seen physicians giving morphine as a “first-line” agent: Nitroglycerine, Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV), and Morphine. …

Cardiovascular