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 the end of life, symptom control, care for the dying, and care
after death.
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 the end of life, symptom control, care for the dying, and care
after death.
1: The challenge of patients with heart failure: barriers in
accessing supportive and palliative care
2: The physiology of patients with heart failure: the origin of
symptoms and rationale for treatment
3: Prognostication and disease trajectory
4: Communication in heart failure
5: Diagnosing end stage heart disease
6: Integrating supportive and palliative care
7: Optimising management in end stage heart failure
8: Advance care planning
9: Management of pain
10: Symptoms other than pain
11: Psychological and psychosocial aspects of heart failure
12: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and device therapy at the end of
life
13: Care of the dying
14: Spiritualty and religious care
15: Supporting carers
This pocket-sized OUP Specialist Handbook provides a wealth of
information about the supportive and palliative care of patients
with heart failure. . . I was impressed by the amount of
information, clearly set out in bullet-point lists, and by the
Table of Contents and the system of headings which make that
information accessible.
*Dr. Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews*
A comprehensive approach to the psychological and psychosocial
needs of heart failure patients and their caregivers is unique and
presented in easy-to-read summaries. This is a useful tool for any
professional working with clients in heart failure.
*Doody's Reviews*
This is a clearly structured and transparently written guidebook
directed at medical, nursing and allied professional specialists in
heart failure, a more general cardiology population and palliative
care staff. It aims to guide the identification of advanced heart
failure and advise on its holistic management.
*European Journal on Palliative Care, Jan 2013*
Have the authors achieved their aim in producing of valuable
practical 'pocket' reference? To me they have clearly succeeded in
this, with a clear concise guide to the complexities of advanced
heart failure, which should be a valuable resource to all those
involved in the care of patients with this condition.
*BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, Jan 2013*
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