Update on pediatric heart failure

Current Opinion in Pediatrics
Sylvia Del CastilloPaul F Kantor

Abstract

This review highlights recent advances in the diagnosis and management of children with heart failure. We emphasize the clinical approach to patient care in the areas of acute decompensated heart failure, chronic heart failure, and failure of the patient with single ventricle physiology. Important guidelines regarding the recognition and management of heart failure in children have been proposed and adopted, providing guidance for early recognition and ongoing management. Early diuresis, and avoidance of excessive inotropic agent use, in favor of milrinone as an inotropic-vasodilator agent, are emphasized. Close monitoring of airway pressures to improve ventricular filling, and extubation to positive pressure or high-flow nasal cannula therapy are also important. Chronic heart failure therapy requires combination treatment with diuretics, and the three major classes of drugs. Management of the failing Fontan requires attention to the hepatic, pulmonary and lymphatic circulations. Improved outcomes in children with heart failure are possible. Inherent in this success is the engagement of an interdisciplinary team-based approach to care, with early recognition and escalation of care for specific patients who are not improving as ...Continue Reading

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