Acute Heart Failure Study Group

Composition of the study group

Leadership

• Chair: Mattia Arrigo, Switzerland
• Co-Chair: Hannah Schaubroeck, Belgium
• Past-Chair: Josep Masip, Spain

Members

• Johannes Grand, Denmark
• Danielle Gualandro, Switzerland
• Alexandre Mebazaa, France
• Christian Mueller, Switzerland
• Oscar Miro, Spain
• Frank W. Peacock, USA
• Elke Platz, USA
• Susanna Price, UK
• Xavier Rosselló, Spain
• Alessandro Sionis, Spain
• Guido Tavazzi, Italy

Advisors

• Salvatore DiSomma, Italy
• MucioTavares,  Brasil
• Hector Bueno,  Spain

Aims

• To promote acute heart failure as one of the main acute cardiovascular diseases
• To highlight unmet needs in care for acute heart failure

Publications

2024

• Diagnosis and treatment of right ventricular failure secondary to acutely increased right ventricular afterload (acute cor pulmonale): a clinical consensus statement of the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care of the European Society of Cardiology

Previous years 

• Acute Heart Failure in the 2021 ESC Heart Failure Guidelines: a scientific statement from the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC) of the European Society of Cardiology. European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care - 2022
• Risk stratification scores for patients with acute heart failure in the Emergency Department: A systematic review. European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care - 2020
• Expert consensus document: Reporting checklist for quantification of pulmonary congestion by lung ultrasound in heart failure - 2019
• Indications and practical approach to non-invasive ventilation in acute heart failure - 2018
• Echocardiography and lung ultrasonography for the assessment and management of acute heart failure- 2017
• Practical approach on frail older patients attended for acute heart failure - 2016
• Safe discharge of acute heart failure patients from the emergency department - 2016
• Acute heart failure: A call for interdisciplinary - 2015

Webinar on Acute Heart Failure

• Early initiation of SGLT-2 inhibitors after acute decompensated HF (October 2022)
• Acute heart failure complicating acute myocardial infarction: what do the guidelines say? (May 2022)
• Mechanical ventilation in AHF (June 2021)
• Acute RV failure secondary to acutely increased afterload (February 2021)

Sessions about AHF at Acute CardioVascular Care 2023

• Managing AHF in the emergency department. The earlier the better
• How to effectively manage a patient with AHF and other severe conditions
• How to treat AF as precipitating factor for worsening AHF
• Novel treatment options for AHF
• Approach to cardiogenic shock in specific patients groups
• Contemporary management of AHF in the emergency department
• How to approach the role of the shock team and cardiogenic shock phenotypes
• Initial assessment in shock
• Controversies in management of cardiogenic shock
• State of the art treatment of cardiogenic shock in 2023
• Emerging concepts to manage patients with AHF in the Emergency Department
• My AHF patient develops acute kidney injury!