Heart Failure and Palliative Care (eBook, PDF)

A Team Approach, Second Edition
Redaktion: Johnson, Miriam

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040291535
• Artikelnr.: 72280326

Autorenporträt

Miriam Johnson

Inhaltsangabe

The Need for Palliative Care in Heart Failure. The Syndrome of Advanced Heart Failure. Optimal Therapy for Heart Failure. Prognosis in Advanced Heart Failure. Symptom Relief for Advanced Heart Failure. Supportive Care: Psychological, Social and Spiritual Aspects. Communication in Heart Failure. Advance Care Planning, Mental Capacity Act, etc. Shared Decision Making. Care of the Patients Dying from Heart Failure. Young People. Palliative Care Services for People with Heart Failure.

Rezensionen

"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 Medicine





The 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