Heart failure

Guidelines and tools

Prevention, detection and management of heart failure

National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of heart failure in Australia 2018

National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of heart failure in Australia 2018: Executive summary

The 2018 guidelines were developed by the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) in partnership with the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). These guidelines are endorsed by:

• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC)
• Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)
• The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
• The Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANA)
• Australian College of Nursing (ACN)
• Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)
• Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP)
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) – approved as an accepted clinical resource

Heart failure guidelines - A concise summary for the GP

Clinical fact sheet: pharmacological management of chronic heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF) (2019)

Clinical fact sheet: diagnosis and classification of heart failure (2019)

Guideline algorithms

• Table 10. Medications that may cause or exacerbate chronic heart failure
• Figure 1. Drivers and potential targets for treatment in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
• Figure 2. Diagnostic workup of a patient with suspected heart failure
• Figure 3. Management of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Presentations

• NHFA/CSANZ Heart Failure Guidelines 2018 – full guideline presentation
• NHFA/CSANZ Heart Failure Guidelines 2018 – guideline summary presentation

Guideline supporting documentation

• Governance document: NHFA and CSANZ: Australian clinical guidelines for the detection, prevention and management of heart failure 2018
• Conflict of interest register for NHFA and CSANZ heart failure 2018 working group
• Conflict of interest register for NHFA and CSANZ heart failure 2018 reference group
• Key messages & FAQs

A targeted approach to reducing heart failure readmissions: The Heart Failure Toolkit

A resource for reducing 30-day readmission rates for patients with heart failure. Outlines a series of patient-centred outcome measures, three heart failure optimisation pillars, a framework for health service system redesign and how data can be used to drive quality improvement. A joint initiative between the Heart Foundation and the Victorian Government through the Health Innovation and Reform Council (HIRC) and the Victorian Cardiac Clinical Network (VCCN).

• Heart Failure Toolkit – a targeted approach to reducing heart failure readmissions

HEART online

• HEART online website
  Clinician resources for cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure management. Access evidence-based guidelines, templates, protocols, calculators, patient resources and videos. Supported by Queensland Health and the Heart Foundation.

Information for your patients

• Facts and information about heart failure​