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Title Supportive care in heart failure / edited by James Beattie and Sarah Goodlin
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 491 pages) : illustrations
Series Supportive care series
Supportive care series.
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
Palliative treatment.
Heart Failure -- nursing
Palliative Care
Palliative treatment
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Cardiovascular Diseases.
Form Electronic book
Author Beattie, James, Dr.
Goodlin, Sarah J.
ISBN 9780191730030
0191730033