Acute Heart Failure
An ACVC Study Group
Composition of the study group
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!