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.
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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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Für Beruf und Forschung
Professionals involved in cardiology, including doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals; palliative care specialist doctors, nurses and allied health professionals involved in the care of patients with cardiac disease, as well as specialist registrars.
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Black and white diagrams
Black and white diagrams
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Höhe: 180 mm
Breite: 100 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-929930-0 (9780199299300)
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Miriam Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Hull-York Medical School (HYMS) and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine to St. Catherine's hospice, Scarborough and Scarborough and District NHS Trust, UK, Karen Hogg, Consultant Cardiologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary & Golden Jubilee National Hospital, UK, and James Beattie, Consultant Cardiologist, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK
Edited by Max Watson, Belfast City Hospital (Research Fellow), Northern Ireland Hospice Care (Locum Consultant Palliative Medicine), UK
Contributors:
Dr Shona Jenkins
SpR Cardiology
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
UK
Dr Suzanne Kite, MA FRCP
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
UK
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Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Hull-York Medical School (HYMS) and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine to St. Catherine's hospice, Scarborough and Scarborough and District NHS Trust, UK
Consultant Cardiologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary & Golden Jubilee National Hospital, UK
Consultant Cardiologist, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK
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
