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What are the four groups used to categorize patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) based on hemodynamic and clinical status?
Patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) are categorized into four groups based on hemodynamic and clinical status: dry-warm, dry-cold, wet-warm, and wet-cold.
Key points
- ADHF categories are based on hemodynamic and clinical status.
- The four groups are: dry-warm, dry-cold, wet-warm, and wet-cold.
- The wet-warm category is the most common presentation in ADHF.
Source:Lew is' s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems· Heart Failure· p. 899–903
Lew is' s Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems
Mariann M. Harding Jeffrey Kwong Debra Hagler
12TH EDITION · Elsevier Inc.