medication titration

The Pulse eNewsletter - February 2025

The Pulse — February 2024

Let’s make 2025 our best year yet! We wrapped 2024 with the exciting announcement for the FDA expanded label of Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Impella Support System to include treatment for certain children suffering from heart failure. Achievements like this would not be possible without the continued efforts and dedication of our ACTION centers providing care to these patients, as well as entering, cleaning, and adjudicating the data. We also continued access to the Berlin Heart Active Driver under the extended trial, and we published many new ACTION manuscripts.

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Suboptimal Titration of Heart Failure Medications in Pediatric Patients: Baseline Data from ACTION

This multi-center retrospective pilot study evaluated the current state of HF medication therapy in children and found that, despite a robust evidence base in adults and recommendations for children, use of ACEi/ARB/ARNi, BB, and MRA is not universal in children with EF <40%; indeed, less than half of children received medications from all three classes by 6 months of follow-up...

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