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The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) are very proud to announce the first-ever collaborative publication of CCS guidelines within Canadian Nurse, the official publication of CAN.

April 25, 2006

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) are very proud to announce the first-ever collaborative publication of CCS guidelines within Canadian Nurse, the official publication of CAN.

"The development of the recent guidelines a published in the January issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology and the March 2006 issue of Canadian Nurse demonstrates the interdisciplinary collaboration of the Canadian Nurses Association and CCS dedicated to improving Canadian standards of heart failure care", Muriel Hurst Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Nurse

"To fully impact the physical and social burden of heart failure in individual patients and to improve population health, collaboration amongst all care-givers is essential. A common shared treatment plan allows patients to receive best treatments, across the multidisciplinary spectrum, at each visit with any health care practitioner. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, social workers and others can all provide best complementary practices to improve quality and quantity of life in a patient with heart failure." Malcolm Arnold, Chair CCS Heart Failure Consensus Conference

Both CCS and CNA plan to publish updates of the heart failure guidelines in their respective journals in 2007.

For more information, please contact John Parker, Director Knowledge Translation (parker@ccs.ca)

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