Clinical usefulness of the definitions for defining characteristics of activity intolerance, excess fluid volume and decreased cardiac output in decompensated heart failure: a descriptive exploratory study.
Vanessa de SouzaSandra Salloum ZeitounCamila Takao LopesAna Paula Dias de OliveiraJuliana de Lima LopesAlba Lucia Bottura Leite de BarrosPublished in: Journal of clinical nursing (2015)
The operational definitions may favour early recognition of the sequence of responses to decompensation, guiding the choice of common interventions to improve or resolve excess fluid volume and decreased cardiac output.