ABSTRACT
Learning objectives ■ Mini glossary ■ The healthy heart ■ The diseased heart ■ Some causes of heart failure ■ Important consequences of heart failure for the patient ■ Treatment of heart failure ■ ACE inhibitors ■ Effects of ACE inhibitors ■ Clinical use of ACE inhibitors ■ Adverse effects and precautions with ACE
inhibitors ■ Angiotensin-II receptor blockers ■ Diuretics ■ -blockers ■ Sodium nitroprusside
Learning objectives Be able to discuss briefl y the difference between the normal and diseased ■ heart with respect to congestive heart failure – know what Starling’s Law states. Be able to list the important consequences of heart failure for the patient. ■ Be able to list the six main classes of drugs used to treat heart failure. ■ Know some examples and be able to list briefl y their effects, mechanism ■ of action given here and some adverse effects.
