[Optimizing the management of heart failure: structuring the care pathway]

Abstract

The incidence of chronic heart failure continues to rise in Western countries, justifying the implementation of an optimized multidisciplinary organization based on medical and nursing convergence. Around the main heart failure, assistance and transplantation unit at Toulouse University Hospital, several structures have been put in place to better manage heart failure patients and improve their care pathway.

Keywords: care pathway; consultation multidisciplinaire; convergence médico-soignante; heart failure; insuffisance cardiaque; medical-care convergence; multidisciplinary consultation; parcours de soins; telemonitoring; teletitration; therapeutic education; télésurveillance; télétitration; éducation thérapeutique.