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The National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand’s Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of heart failure in Australia 2018 provide evidence-based guidance on the clinical management of patients with heart failure. 

This document from the Heart Foundation, Five Steps to a Safe Heart Failure Discharge provides staff with clear guidance on the key considerations when discharging a patient from hospital who has been admitted with heart failure   |  Download .pdf

Tools from the guidelines

• Heart failure diagnostic criteria  
• The diagnostic work up of a patient with suspected heart failure  
• Management of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction  

Fact sheets  

• Fact sheet 1: Diagnosis and classification of heart failure (2019). This fact sheet contains comprehensive information about the symptoms, signs, diagnosis and classification of heart failure.  
• Fact sheet 2: Pharmacological management of chronic heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction  (HFrEF)  (2019). This fact sheet provides information about the basics of pharmacological management of chronic HFrEF. 

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Heart online is a wonderful resource (Heart Education Assessment Rehabilitation Toolkit): 

• Patient education
• Titrating medications (slightly old as does not have SGLT2i in the document)
• Adverse drug reactions and heart failure
• Heart failure medication titration problem solving guidelines
• Monitoring of heart failure medicines
• recommended target dose for heart failure medication
• Physical activity, exercise and heart failure (for exercise professionals)

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• Heart failure: taking an active role - Early diagnosis of heart failure and effective management keeps people out of hospital and helps them live better, longer lives.  The NPS MedicineWise program on heart failure has been developed in collaboration with the National Heart Foundation of Australia.   Resources for medical team re early diagnosis of HF and management including CPD, Videos and Guidelines.

More Links:

• Fact sheet - Sacubitril with Valsartan (Entrestro) for Health Failure with reduced ejection fraction / Queensland Health
• ClinicalKey Clinical Overview of Heart Failure / Elsevier Point of Care. Updated September 14, 2022. 
• AMH Heart failure management revised, incorporating the recently approved use of dapagliflozin and empagliflozin
• 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 79(17), e263–e421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.12.012 or Circulation. 2022;145:e895–e1032 https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001063 
• European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Guidelines 2021: What should we be doing in current practice? By Joseph J Cuthbert.  British Cardiovascular Society. October 2021 |  Download .pdf