TY - JOUR AU - Farmakis, Dimitrios AU - Agostoni, Piergiuseppe AU - Baholli, Loant AU - Bautin, Andrei AU - Comin-Colet, Josep AU - Crespo-Leiro, Maria G AU - Fedele, Francesco AU - García-Pinilla, Jose Manuel AU - Giannakoulas, George AU - Grigioni, Francesco AU - Gruchała, Marcin AU - Gustafsson, Finn AU - Harjola, Veli-Pekka AU - Hasin, Tal AU - Herpain, Antoine AU - Iliodromitis, Efstathios K AU - Karason, Kristjan AU - Kivikko, Matti AU - Liaudet, Lucas AU - Ljubas-Maček, Jana AU - Marini, Marco AU - Masip, Josep AU - Mebazaa, Alexandre AU - Nikolaou, Maria AU - Ostadal, Petr AU - Põder, Pentti AU - Pollesello, Piero AU - Polyzogopoulou, Eftihia AU - Pölzl, Gerhard AU - Tschope, Carsten AU - Varpula, Marjut AU - von Lewinski, Dirk AU - Vrtovec, Bojan AU - Yilmaz, Mehmet Birhan AU - Zima, Endre AU - Parissis, John PY - 2019 DO - 10.1016/j.ijcard.2019.09.005 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/14822 T2 - International journal of cardiology AB - Inotropes aim at increasing cardiac output by enhancing cardiac contractility. They constitute the third pharmacological pillar in the treatment of patients with decompensated heart failure, the other two being diuretics and vasodilators. Three... LA - en KW - Acute heart failure KW - Advanced heart failure KW - Dobutamine KW - Inodilators KW - Inotropes KW - Levosimendan KW - Milrinone KW - Norepinephrine KW - Adrenergic beta-Agonists KW - Cardiotonic Agents KW - Consensus KW - Heart Failure KW - Humans KW - Patient Selection KW - Practice Patterns, Physicians' TI - A pragmatic approach to the use of inotropes for the management of acute and advanced heart failure: An expert panel consensus. TY - research article VL - 297 ER -