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Background:
Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is a common and potentially fatal cause of acute respiratory distress that requires immediate treatment in emergency department. The mortality rates are as high as 20% after discharge. Currently, furosemide is the most commonly used medicine in emergency department for ADHF. Although nitrate was proved to generate similar effect when compared to furosemide, less than 30% of patients received nitrates. This practice happens not only in Hong Kong, but also all around the world. Moreover, there is limited evidence to support a difference in ADHF patients receiving intravenous nitrate vasodilator therapy or alternative interventions.
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Design:
This single-blinded randomized controlled study will be conducted in the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.
Setting and Subjects:
Patients with dyspnoea will be screened and recruited from adult patients attending the emergency department at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
Interventions:
Patients with acute decompensated heart failure will be randomly treated with intravenous furosemide, isosorbide dinitrate or both. Level of dyspnoea, multi-biomarker and haemodynamic parameters will be measured before and after treatment.
Outcomes:
The primary outcome is the change in VAS dyspnoea score after treatment of furosemide, isosorbide dinitrate or both. The secondary outcomes are the changes in concentration of biomarkers and cardiac output, the number of in-hospital mortality, length of hospital stay, 7-day and 30-day and 6-month mortality and readmission.
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Heart failure can be defined as an abnormality of cardiac structure or function leading to failure of the heart to deliver oxygen at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues, despite normal filling pressures (or only at the expense of increased filling pressures).
Acute decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF), is defined according to Framingham criteria as a change in symptoms and signs in the context of heart failure. For this study we define this as an acute change in symptoms and signs within the previous 24 hours.
In the New York Heart Association classification (NYHA), Class I: no limitation is experienced in any activities; there are no symptoms from ordinary activities.; Class II: slight, mild limitation of activity; the patient is comfortable at rest or with mild exertion.; Class III: marked limitation of any activity; the patient is comfortable only at rest.; Class IV: any physical activity brings on discomfort and symptoms occur at rest.
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