Background: At Hanoi Heart Hospital, in recent years, along with the development of science and technology, the development of modern treatment measures such as percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass surgery, heart valve replacement ... helped save the lives of many patients. However, these patients still require continued treatment for heart failure as a complication of the primary illness and thus also increase the number of patients with heart failure, both acute and decompensated. Objective: “Describe the clinical and subclinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with acute heart failure and the status of heart failure treatment according to current heart failure treatment guidelines at Hanoi Heart Hospital”. Method: Cross-sectional, prospective, descriptive analysis with convenient sample size. Results: From January 2018 to december 2018, 475 patients were hospitalized due to acute heart failure or decompensation ,63,8% male and 36, 2% female. Mean age 69,1 ± 13,8; 63,6% newly discovered heart failure; 41,4% EF 40 – 50% and 58,6% EF < 40%; number of Hopital days 8.3 ± 6.2 days(( 1- 46 days); there are five (1.1%) patients died in hospital; among them a patient who was treated for one day due to severe illness died; we have used interventions, assisted circulation and respiration such as CRT, CRT-D, CVVH, IABP, atrial septal defect and ECMO. Conclusion: Results of treatment of acute heart failure at Hanoi Heart Hospital is feasible with rate of discharge is 87,7%.
Teaching Heart Failure Treatment Guidelines and Assessing Heart Failure Therapy
