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Title Issues in heart failure nursing / edited by Chris Jones ; foreword by Martin Cowie
Published Keswick, Cumbria : M & K, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 155 pages)
Contents Heart failure in the community: a confusion of protocols -- District nurses meeting the challenge of heart failure -- The care of patients who develop heart failure alongside mental health problems -- Adults with congenital heart disease and heart failure -- Cardia resynchronisation therapy -- Congestive heart failure and cognitive dysfunction -- Sexual dysfunction in heart failure -- Exercise training in the management of patients with heart failure: a review of the evidence -- Exercise: the things wo don't know -- Improved symptom control in palliative care for heart failure -- Improving palliative care service provision for patients with heart failure -- Assisted dying and heart failure
Summary 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 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Heart failure -- Nursing
Palliative Care -- methods
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart.
MEDICAL -- Cardiology.
Heart failure -- Nursing.
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Chris, 1955-
ISBN 9781907830006
1907830006
1282135643
9781282135642