title: [Key messages for the initial management of the elderly patient with acute heart failure].
abstract: Acute heart failure is a high prevalence geriatric syndrome that has become one of the most frequent causes of visits to emergency departments, as well as hospital admission, and is associated with high morbidity, mortality and functional impairment. There has been an increasing amount of information published in recent years on the initial management of acute heart failure and the results of the short-term outcomes, as well as the natural history of the disease. The objective of this study is to provide several recommendations that should be taken into account in the initial management of the elderly patient with acute heart failure in the emergency departments, and to review the most interesting currently on-going clinical trials.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, España. Electronic address: fjjms@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: F Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Martín-Sánchez
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Madrid, España.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Adrada
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, España.
authors.forename: Pere
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Llorens
authors.affiliation: Programa Geriatría, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Francesc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Formiga
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
keywords: Acute heart failure; Anciano; Elderly; Emergency; Insuficiencia cardiaca aguda; Urgencias