The Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Unit of the Nuestra Señora del Prado University General Hospital in Talavera de la Reina has obtained the accreditation through the SEMI Excellent program of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicinefor his quality of care and teaching in the … Monitoring of complex chronic patients with heart failure.
This Excellent accreditation certifies that the unit meets the highest standards of quality of care in this fieldas reported by the Council in a press release.
Included in the Comprehensive Care Unit program for Heart Failure Patients, Umipic has already 82 active units throughout the national territory, four in Castile-La Manchamore precisely in Puertollano, Albacete, Almansa and Talavera de la Reina.
Its objective is to offer a Comprehensive, Continuing Care for Heart Failure Patientscombining the work of internists, specialist nursing and cardiology. The studies published by the Revista Clínica Española 2016 and 2022 showed that This model significantly reduces hospital admissions, emergency room visits and patient mortality followed in these units.
The Talavera de la Reina hospital unit She started her activity in 2012 with a weekly part-time consultationled by an internist with specific training and with nursing support. In 2018, it was consolidated as a multidisciplinary unit by gradually integrating specialists from internal medicine, cardiology and specialized nursing.
The model is based on health education for the patient and their caregivers, the provision of constants at homeearly detection of decompensations and direct accessibility by telephone to resolve incidents and immediately adjust treatment.
Unit activity
The unit last year he treated 160 patientsincluding more than 70 new ones, carrying out 400 physical assessments, 300 telephone medical consultations, nearly 500 nursing telephone consultations and 70 training sessions during hospitalization. During follow-up of these patients, emergency room visits were reduced by 36% and hospitalizations by 50%.
Heart failure is defined as inability of the heart to pump blood to other organs. It is characterized by severe fatigue, exhaustion, swollen legs and patients are not able to lead a normal life due to these symptoms.
Currently, 6.8% of the Spanish population over 45 suffers from heart failure, which represents a total of 1,320,376 peopleand its incidence increases with age, affecting between 15 and 20% of people over 85 years old.
Furthermore, this prevalence is expected to increase up to 25% in 2030, a direct cause of the aging of the population and the increase in risk factors. Furthermore, the IC It is the most common cause of hospitalization in our country among people over 65 years old..
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