Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 100 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 120 g
From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 100 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 120 g
Reihe: Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care
ISBN: 978-0-19-929930-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
Zielgruppe
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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Weitere Infos & Material
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
