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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2019

Early Treatment in Emergency Department Patients with Acute Heart Failure: Does Time Matter?

Anna Marie Chang, Peter S Pang, Javed Butler, Alan B Storrow, Phillip D Levy, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Sean P Collins

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Anna Marie ChangDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 1020 Sansom St, Thompson Building Suite 239, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA. Anna.m.chang@jefferson.edu.
Peter S PangDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Javed ButlerDepartment of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MI, USA.
Alan B StorrowDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Phillip D LevyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
JoAnn LindenfeldDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Sean P CollinsDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · USIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · USThomas Jefferson University Hospital · USUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center · USWayne State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAcute heart failure accounts for over one million hospital discharges annually. Current guidelines suggest treatments for AHF should begin "without delay" but this time interval has not been clearly defined. RECENT

findingsData suggest that certain treatments such as earlier treatment with diuretics and vasodilators may improve patient symptom relief, morbidity, and mortality. Secondary analyses of clinical trials of novel treatments under development have not shown similar results. The data are equivocal regarding the impact of early treatment in AHF on in-hospital and long-term morbidity and mortality. Improved clinical trial designs will help answer when and if "early" treatment should begin and whether it impacts short- and long-term outcomes in AHF.

Indexed as

Emergency Service, HospitalAcute DiseaseDiureticsGlobal HealthHeart FailureHumansMorbiditySurvival RateTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeVasodilator AgentsDiureticsVasodilator AgentsAcute heart failureEmergency medicineTreatments for AHF

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PMID30828762
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