This PDA site will allow you to access the tools developed as part of the Society of Hospital Medicine's Heart Failure Initiative to aid practicing hospitalists and other clinicians caring for heart failure patients.
This reference guide is an outline of key educational principles and educational tools for hospitalists and clinicians to use when preparing the patient for discharge.
View the Medication Education Reference Guide
This reference guide lists some of the common medications that should be used with caution, avoided, or monitored closely in patients with systolic heart failure. This guide can serve as a reminder to the practicing hospitalist of the potential common or serious adverse drug reactions seen with a number of classes of medications which should either preclude their use or trigger anticipatory and close monitoring of the patient for potential serious adverse drug effects.