Issues in Heart Failure Nursing
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2006
168 pages
978-1-907830-00-6 (ISBN)
Description
The number of people suffering from this debilitating condition is predicted to grow exponentially over the next decade. This has serious implications for the health services. Investigating heart failure is not cheap even where facilities exist. The drugs used, though effective - often remarkably so - are also costly as are mandate laboratory investigations. These again are not cheap. People with heart failure require frequent admissions to hospital and occupy many beds and much staff attention. All of these factors are set to increase over the next decades. This eclectic collection of papers tackles many of the issues that concern those who care for individuals with heart failure; organisation of services, exercise, palliative care amongst them, but also novel and rarely discussed issues.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Keswick
United Kingdom
Publishing group
M&K Update Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-907830-00-6 (9781907830006)
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Chris Jones | Debbie Bell | Pippa Witter
Issues in Heart Failure Nursing
Book
09/2006
M&K Update Ltd
€43.56
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Content
- Intro
- Prelims
- Table of contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Heart failure in the community
- Chapter 2 District nurses meeting the challenge of heart failure
- Chapter 3 The care of patients who develop heart failure alongside mental health problems
- Chapter 4 Adults with congenital heart disease and heart failure
- Chapter 5 Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
- Chapter 6 Congestive heart failure and cognitive dysfunction
- Chapter 7 Sexual dysfunction in heart failure
- Chapter 8 Exercise training in the management of patients with heart failure
- Chapter 9 Exercise: the things we don't know
- Chapter 10 Improved symptom control in palliative care for heart failure
- Chapter 11 Improving palliative care service provision for patients with heart failure
- Chapter 12 Assisted dying and heart failure
- New York Heart Association Scale
- Index
