Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of chronic heart failure: what the therapist of the outpatient health care unit should know (according to the recommendations of the European Society of Cardiology for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure in 2016)

Abstract

In the article, the main provisions of the recommendations of the European Society of Cardiology and the Association for Heart Failure 2016 are presented in the abstract. The new classification is presented, the approaches to diagnostics and pharmacological treatment of chronic heart failure are highlighted, attention is paid to the prevention of development of clinically significant heart failure and multidisciplinary approach in managing patients with this pathology.

Keywords

• chronic heart failure
• recommendations
• treatment