title: European Society of Cardiology-Acute Cardiovascular Care Association Position paper on acute heart failure: A call for interdisciplinary care.
abstract: Acute heart failure (AHF) continues to have unacceptably high rates of mortality and morbidity. This position paper highlights the need for more intense interdisciplinary cooperation as one key element to overcome the challenges associated with fragmentation in the care of AHF patients. Additional aspects discussed include the importance of early diagnosis and treatment, options for initial treatment, referral bias as a potential cause for treatment preferences among experts, considerable uncertainty regarding patient disposition, the diagnosis of accompanying acute myocardial infarction, the need for antibiotic therapy, as well as assessment of intravascular volume status.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mueller
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Christ
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Cardiology, Imperial College London, UK.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cowie
authors.affiliation: 4 Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia.|6 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cullen
authors.affiliation: 7 Coronary Care Unit and Heart Failure Program, Veteran Affairs (VA) San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: Alan S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Maisel
authors.affiliation: 8 University of Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Josep
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Masip
authors.affiliation: 9 Emergency Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.|10 Research Group: 'Emergencies: Processes and Pathologies', Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Miro
authors.affiliation: 11 British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McMurray
authors.affiliation: 12 Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Peacock
authors.affiliation: 13 Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Foundation Trust, UK.
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Price
authors.affiliation: 14 Emergency Department, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Italy.|15 Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, 'LaSapienza ' Rome University, Italy.
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: DiSomma
authors.affiliation: 16 Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Spain.
authors.forename: Hector
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bueno
authors.affiliation: 17 Klinikum Ludwigshafen, Institut für Herzinfarktforschung Ludwigshafen, Germany.
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Zeymer
authors.affiliation: 18 Université Paris Diderot, France.|19 Hospital Lariboisière, France.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mebazaa
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019468:Disease Management; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: Acute heart failure; diagnosis; interdisciplinary care; management