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

2018 guidelines 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)
• RCPA- Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

Algorithms 2018 guidelines

• 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 2018

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

Supporting documentation 2018 guidelines

• 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.

Multidisciplinary care

• Multidisciplinary care for people with chronic heart failure: Principles and recommendations for best practice, 2010 (PDF)
  To help health professionals and policymakers establish and maintain best-practice heart failure management programs in Australia.

Information for your patients

• Facts and information about heart failure​

Living well with heart failure

These consumer resources will be updated soon due to the release of new heart failure guidelines.

• Living well with chronic heart failure booklet (PDF)
  To help people with heart failure better understand and manage their condition. 

• Living well with chronic heart failure information sheet (PDF) (Available in 17 languages) 
  Information sheet for people with heart failure and their carers. ​

Resources for lower literacy

These resources are designed for health professionals to use with heart failure patients who have low health literacy.

• Living well with heart failure - Information to help you feel better (PDF)
• My Medicines Plan (PDF)
• My Fluid Plan (PDF)

Archived chronic heart failure guidelines - for reference only