Heart Failure : From Advanced Disease to Bereavement PDF
by Miriam Johnson, Karen Hogg, James Beattie
Part of the Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care series
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Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible.
Failure to address this aspect of care has serious consequences for patients, their families, clinicians and the use of health resources. Heart Failure: From Advanced Disease to Bereavement illustrates the complexity and importance of end of life care for patients with advanced heart failure. This book is a pocket reference for everyday use in the clinic, ward or home visit for all doctors, nurses and AHPs caring for people with advanced heart failure. It outlines the underlying pathophysiology of heart failure, summarises standard pharmacological and device therapy, and sets the context of the challenges resulting from an unpredictable course of disease.
In easily digestible summaries, this book presents practical advice about how and when to integrate a palliative care approach alongside standard heart failure management, how to communicate honestly in the face of uncertainty, the rationalisation of medication and device therapies at theend of life, symptom control, care for the dying, and care after death.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:05/04/2012
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:05/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780191559532
