Managing Acute Decompensated Heart Failure on the Ward
A practical ward-level framework for the patient with acute decompensated heart failure — assessment, diuresis, and the early decisions that matter most.
Audience level
FY1, FY2, and SHO-level practical knowledge.
7 articles
A practical ward-level framework for the patient with acute decompensated heart failure — assessment, diuresis, and the early decisions that matter most.
Why raised lactate matters in sepsis, what causes it, and how to use it without anchoring on it.
A clean three-step framework for hyponatraemia that gets you from a low sodium on a routine blood test to a working diagnosis and a safe plan.
A walk-through of the UK Sepsis-Six bundle as it actually plays out in a busy resuscitation room, plus what tends to slip.
A step-by-step protocol for diabetic ketoacidosis aligned with JBDS-IP guidance, with the points where junior doctors most often get into trouble.
A small set of high-yield rules and traps to turn an arterial blood gas from a wall of numbers into a story.
The SNOOP10 framework for spotting the headache that isn't primary, with what to do at the bedside when each red flag is present.