Cardiology

General Hospital Medicine

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How do you approach caring for patients admitted with decompensated CHF, but who also exhibit hypotension and do not have overt signs of hypervolemia on exam?

For example, do you consider "cautious" IV fluids or otherwise consider early vasopressors?

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of cardiac failure, 2021 Oct

Heart Failure-Related Cardiogenic Shock: Pathophysiology, Evaluation and Management Considerations: Review of Heart Failure-Related Cardiogenic Shock.

JAMA, 1989 Feb 10

The limited reliability of physical signs for estimating hemodynamics in chronic heart failure.

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