Heart Failure and Palliative Care

A Team Approach, Second Edition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This book is a guide to help clinicians caring for people with advanced heart failure develop a team approach for a group of people who, despite the increased awareness, remains disadvantaged in accessing support to help them live with, and support them as they die from, this serious illness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-13
Mått:174 x 246 x undefined mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138456464

Utforska kategorier

Palliativ medicin inom Medicin

Recensioner i media

"This book is a fantastic resource for anyone working with patients with heart failure. It will facilitate the integration of palliative care into heart failure management …"—British Journal of Hospital MedicineThe book includes chapters on the syndrome of advanced heart failure—optimal therapy, prognosis, symptom relief, supportive care, communication, the need for palliative care, and how to improve terminal care. Good stuff.—Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Reviews Editor

Innehållsförteckning

1. The need for palliative care in heart failure 2. The syndrome of advanced heart failure 3. Optimal therapy for heart failure 4. Prognosis in advanced heart failure 5. Symptom relief for advanced heart failure 6. Supportive care: Psychological, social and spiritual aspects 7. Communication in heart failure 8. Care of the patient dying from heart failure 9. Palliative care needs of young people with heart failure 10. Palliative care services for patients with heart failure