Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Heart Failure-Diagnosis

Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Heart Failure-Diagnosis
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20369

Abstract: 
"Heart Failure-Diagnosis" is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites,  they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings. This provider sheet has a companion product--"Heart Failure-Treatment."
Estimated time to complete: 
30 minutes

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Educational objectives: 
Objectives:
1. Identify the major cause of systolic and diastolic heart failure in older adults
2. Explain how the symptoms of heart failure differ from those of normal aging
3. State whether the results of key diagnostic tests for heart failure – echocardiogram and B-type natriuretic peptic – correlate with disease severity and prognosis
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
(1) content is not changed, 
(2) no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication, 
(3) authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and 
(4) the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 
The Elder Care provider sheets are occasionally published in the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal, which is published twice yearly

Nelson, D. and Medina-Walpole, A. (2010, December), Elder care provider fact sheets. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(12), 2414-2415. Also available online.
Date posted: 
Mon, 03/23/2009
Date last updated: 
Wed, 12/15/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Sponsor: 
Other Sponsors: Arizona Geriatric Education Center

Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Carol Howe (chowe@ahsl.arizona.edu)
Authors: 
Dr. Beth Malasky
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Conflict of Interest Details: 
Author owns stock in Johnson and Johnson and Medtronics Corporation.
NLM Citation:
Malasky, B. Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Heart Failure-Diagnosis. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20369
APA Citation:
Malasky, B. (2009). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Heart Failure-Diagnosis. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20369