Doctors, here's a bandaid to stick in your memory
7th July 2015
By Kristen Ochs
A MNEMONIC to help clinicians remember best practice when managing chronic heart failure has been devised by Australian researchers: BANDAID2.
The mnemonic stands for Beta-blocker, ACE inhibitor/ARB, Nitrates-hydralazine, Diuretics, Aldosterone antagonist, Ivabradine, Devices (automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and/or cardiac resynchronisation therapy) and Digoxin.
The researchers, from the University of Sydney and University of NSW, reviewed more than 600 studies, as well as Australian, American and
