Clinician resources

1. Queensland Heart Failure Support Clinical Guideline

• Description:  The objective of the guideline for Heart Failure Support Services is to ensure that all patients with symptomatic heart failure have access to appropriate specialist review and management.
• Access: The Queensland Heart Failure Support Clinical Guideline

2. Queensland Heart Failure Medication Optimisation Plan

• Description: This plan outlines the implementation of four drug classes, diuretics and highlights the importance of iron monitoring
• Access: The Queensland Heart failure medication optimisation plan

*NB. To use outside of Queensland Health, please register here and acknowledge the source of the plan as follows:

• Reproduced with permission from Queensland Health.
• Contact: For further enquiries please email: qldheartfailure@health.qld.gov.au

3. Heart Failure: End-Stage Management Guideline

• Description: This guideline helps healthcare teams recognise when a patient is approaching end-stage heart failure. It includes advice on promoting quality of life and managing common symptoms such as dyspnoea, oedema, pain, anxiety, depression, constipation, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, cachexia, and fatigue.
• Access: Heart Failure: End-stage management guideline

4. Queensland Health Cardiac and Pulmonary Telerehabilitation Guideline

• Description: A practical guide for clinicians, particularly exercise therapists, to implement virtual exercise and education programs for patients with cardiac conditions (including heart failure) and chronic pulmonary disease.
• Access: Queensland Health Cardiac and Pulmonary telerehabilitation guideline

5. Patient information resources

• Access: Patient and carer resources