Heart failure
Heart failure · ICD-10: I50.9
Symptoms
- • Shortness of breath on exertion or lying down; waking up breathless
- • Swollen feet and ankles
- • Fatigue, weakness
- • Cough
- • Fast or irregular pulse
- • Night-time urination; loss of appetite
Drugs and regimens
Heart failure (adjunct to a diuretic) — 5 mg daily, up to 10 mg
Heart failure — start 3.125 mg twice daily for 2 weeks
Under 18 years
Heart failure / CKD — 10 mg once daily
Heart failure / AF rate control
Heart failure / CKD — adults: 10 mg
Heart failure — adults: start 2.5 mg
HF after MI — start 25 mg once daily, up to 50 mg within 4 weeks
Heart failure with LVEF ≥40% — start 10 or 20 mg, target 20 or 40 mg
Adult heart failure — start 5 mg twice daily with food
Child ≥6 months, <40 kg — start 0.05 mg/kg twice daily (solution)
Child ≥40 kg — start 2.5 mg twice daily
Heart failure — start 5 mg once daily
Acute decompensated heart failure — loading 50 mcg/kg slowly over 10 min
Maintenance — 0.375–0.75 mcg/kg/min (standard 0.5)
Heart failure after MI — 2.5 mg twice daily
Adult heart failure — start 49/51 mg twice daily, target 97/103 mg
Child ≥1 y, <40 kg — start 1.6 mg/kg twice daily (combined)
Child ≥40 kg — starting dose by weight, twice daily
Heart failure — 25 mg once daily
Under 18 years
Heart failure — adults: start 40 mg twice daily
HFrEF (EF <45%) after worsening — start 5 mg, double every 2 weeks to 10 mg