Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 491 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Supportive care series |
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Supportive care series.
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Contents |
Overview of supportive care in heart failure -- Heart failure -- Epidemiology of heart failure -- Heart failure: pathophysiology -- Heary failure: optimal pharmacological therapy -- Device therapy for heart failure patients -- Advanced heart failure: the role of the surgeon -- Interdisciplinary care in heart failure -- Patient symptomatic burden -- Quality of life in heart failure -- Dyspnoea -- Sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure -- Fatigue and exercise intolerance -- Pain in heart failure patients -- Cardiac cachexia -- Cognitive impairment -- Depression and anxiety in patients with chronic heart failure -- Spiritual issues [in] heart failure -- Elderly patient with heart failure -- Course to death in heart failure -- Last few days of life -- Bereavement support for patients and families -- Prognostication and communication -- Mortality risk assessment and prognostication -- Communication between clinicians and their heart failure patients and families -- Decision-making in advanced heart failure -- Ethical dilemmas in therapy withdrawal -- Challenges of cultural diversity -- Palliative care research in the face of uncertainty -- Coping with patients' deaths |
Summary |
Supportive care is integral to comprehensive heart failure care and this book provides an evidence-based overview of the aetiology, management and supportive care of patients throughout the course of the disease |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Heart failure -- Palliative treatment
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Palliative treatment.
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Heart Failure -- nursing
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Palliative Care
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Palliative treatment
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Medicine.
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Health & Biological Sciences.
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Cardiovascular Diseases.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Beattie, James, Dr.
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Goodlin, Sarah J.
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ISBN |
9780191730030 |
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0191730033 |
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