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

MedlinePlus · Symptoms

Drugs and regimens

Amiloride⚠ Unverified

Heart failure (adjunct to a diuretic) — 5 mg daily, up to 10 mg

Carvedilol⚠ Unverified

Heart failure — start 3.125 mg twice daily for 2 weeks

Carvedilol⚠ Unverified

Under 18 years

Dapagliflozin⚠ Unverified

Heart failure / CKD — 10 mg once daily

Digoxin⚠ Unverified

Heart failure / AF rate control

Empagliflozin⚠ Unverified

Heart failure / CKD — adults: 10 mg

Enalapril⚠ Unverified

Heart failure — adults: start 2.5 mg

Eplerenone⚠ Unverified

HF after MI — start 25 mg once daily, up to 50 mg within 4 weeks

Finerenone⚠ Unverified

Heart failure with LVEF ≥40% — start 10 or 20 mg, target 20 or 40 mg

Ivabradine⚠ Unverified

Adult heart failure — start 5 mg twice daily with food

Ivabradine⚠ Unverified

Child ≥6 months, <40 kg — start 0.05 mg/kg twice daily (solution)

Ivabradine⚠ Unverified

Child ≥40 kg — start 2.5 mg twice daily

Lisinopril⚠ Unverified

Heart failure — start 5 mg once daily

Milrinone⚠ Unverified

Acute decompensated heart failure — loading 50 mcg/kg slowly over 10 min

Milrinone⚠ Unverified

Maintenance — 0.375–0.75 mcg/kg/min (standard 0.5)

Ramipril⚠ Unverified

Heart failure after MI — 2.5 mg twice daily

Sacubitril + valsartan⚠ Unverified

Adult heart failure — start 49/51 mg twice daily, target 97/103 mg

Sacubitril + valsartan⚠ Unverified

Child ≥1 y, <40 kg — start 1.6 mg/kg twice daily (combined)

Sacubitril + valsartan⚠ Unverified

Child ≥40 kg — starting dose by weight, twice daily

Spironolactone⚠ Unverified

Heart failure — 25 mg once daily

Spironolactone⚠ Unverified

Under 18 years

Valsartan⚠ Unverified

Heart failure — adults: start 40 mg twice daily

Vericiguat⚠ Unverified

HFrEF (EF <45%) after worsening — start 5 mg, double every 2 weeks to 10 mg

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