Optimisation of Heart Failure Management in Nursing Homes Using Point-of-Care Ultrasonography: Harmonious Trial Rationale and Design

Abstract

Heart failure is common in the nursing home population and presents many diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Point-of-care ultrasonography is a bedside method that can be used to assess volume status more reliably than clinical examination. This trial was conceived to test whether point-of-care ultrasonography-guided management improves heart failure outcomes among nursing home residents.

Keywords

• nursing homes
• heart failure
• point-of-care ultrasonography
• volume assessment
• domovi starejših občanov
• srčno popuščanje
• obposteljna ultrasonografija
• ocena volumske obremenitve