Congestive Heart Failure
Conditions
Keywords
Congestive Heart Failure
Brief summary
To determine the association of both neurohormonal and hemodynamic alterations associated with metabolic abnormalities in acute heart failure syndrome.
Interventions
Pulmonary Artery pressure (PA), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), cardiac output (CO), and cardiac index (CI). This data will be collected after 24 ± 2 and 48 ± 2 hours of standard heart failure therapy
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Adult (age \> 18 yrs) patients admitted to the Heart Failure Intensive Care Unit (H22) with Acute Heart Failure Syndrome (AHFS) requiring placement of a Pulmonary Artery catheter for hemodynamically guided therapy.
Exclusion criteria
* History of Congenital Heart Disease. * Acute HF in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. * Severe Anemia * Patients listed for cardiac transplantation. * Terminal Malignancy, AIDS or CNS disease. * Concomitant sepsis, ARDS, trauma, aortic dissection, or pericardial tamponade