Recommendations on pre-hospital and early hospital management of acute heart failure: a consensus paper from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Emergency Medicine and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine--short version

Affiliations

• ¹ University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, U942 Inserm, Hôpitaux Lariboisière Saint Louis University Hospitals, Paris, France alexandre.mebazaa@lrb.aphp.fr alexandre.mebazaa@lrb.ap-hop-paris.fr.
• ² Department of Cardiology, Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, Sivas 58140, Turkey.
• ³ Department of Emergency Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA.
• ⁴ Wroclaw Medical University, 4th Military Hospital, Weigla 5, Wroclaw 50-981, Poland.
• ⁵ Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, 1504 Taub Loop, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
• ⁶ Inserm U942, APHP Groupe Hospitalier Saint Louis Lariboisière, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia and Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ⁸ Nursing Department, Cyprus University of Technology, School of Health Sciences, Limassol, Cyprus.
• ⁹ Consorci Sanitari Integral, Hospital Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi and Hospital General Hospitalet, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Imperial College, London, UK.
• ¹¹ King's College Hospital, London, UK.
• ¹² Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹³ School of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁴ Emergency Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁵ University of Luebeck, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Medical Clinic II, Luebeck, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Heart Failure Unit, Cardiac Dept., Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, AUSL Piacenza, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Cardiology, The Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ¹⁸ ANMCO Resarch Center, Firenze, Italy.
• ¹⁹ BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 126 University Place, Glasgow, UK.
• ²⁰ University of Bergen, Stavanger University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
• ²¹ University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ²² Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ²³ Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, Rämistrasse 100, Zürich 8091, Switzerland.
• ²⁴ Department of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.
• ²⁵ Harvard Medical School and Emergency Medicine Department of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA Faculty of Medicine, University Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
• ²⁶ Division of Applied Cachexia Research, Department of Cardiology, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany Division of Innovative Clinical Trials, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany.
• ²⁷ Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.