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Heart Failure: old symdrome, new concepts and nurse's role

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) has been cause of increasing concern in the world, face its progressive prevalence and incidence and its social and economic repercussion, pointing to the need of revision of the syndrome concept and adoption of measures to reduce its economical and social costs. The objective of this study is to contextualize the comprehension of the physiopathology and the treatment of CHF and the nursing interventions to patients with this syndrome.

Heart Failure, congestive; Therapeutics; Nurse's role, patient


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