Heart Failure and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

In this issue ofCritical Care NursingClinics,guesteditorand Heart Failure and Valve CoordinatorNicole Jones, APRN, CNS,bringsherconsiderable expertise to the topic ofHeart Failure and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.Critical care nurses are vital to improving patient outcomes and the delivery of quality care in patients with heart failure, including recent emphases on the in-patient admission, faster diagnosis of acute or decompensated heart failure, in-patient management in an appropriate care environment, and planned discharge.In this issue,top experts in the fieldprovide current updates in both the clinical care of the heart failure patient as well as nursing interventions to improve outcomes.