Time to intravenous diuretic administration in patients hospitalized with heart failure: An observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To help establish optimized treatment strategies for congestion in patients with acute heart failure, this study aimed to provide a detailed summary of real-world diuretic use in hospitalized patients with heart failure requiring urgent therapy in Japan.

Methods and results

This observational study used a Japanese medical records database to extract data of patients admitted to hospital with a heart failure diagnosis and an intravenous diuretic prescription from the day before admission to 2 days after. Time from hospital visit to first dose, second dose, and maximum dose of intravenous diuretics were determined. Patients were grouped according to whether they received diuretic modification, defined as an intravenous diuretic dose increase or concomitant use of other di

SUBMITTER: Shiraishi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11631256 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature