Heart Failure and Palliative Care

A Team Approach, Second Edition

Miriam Johnson, Richard Lehman, Karen J. Hogg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2015 | 2nd edition
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910227-35-0 (ISBN)

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Full of practical, evidence based advice, ‘Heart Failure and Palliative Care’ encourages a multidisciplinary team based approach. It stimulates joint working between primary care, cardiology and palliative care teams – raising awareness of the problems associated with supportive and palliative care for heart failure patients. The second edition has been significantly revised and updated with brand new chapters and sections on shared decision making, advance care planning, devices, ACP and non-LVSD failure. ‘Heart Failure and Palliative Care’ offers optimum care solutions vital to all palliative care professionals in a wide variety of hospital and community settings.

Miriam Johnson is professor of Palliative Medicine at Hull and an honorary consultant in Palliative Medicine at St. Catherine’s Hospice Scarborough and Acute Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Healthcare Trust. She has strong clinical research bases in oncology and heart failure at Castle Hill Hospital. Additional clinical research partnerships include clinicians in her own clinical base in Scarborough, which includes a current joint project in Parkinsons' Disease.

The Need for Palliative Care in Heart Failure. The Syndrome of Advanced Heart Failure. Optimal Therapy for Heart Failure. Prognosis in Advanced Heart Failure. Symptom Relief for Advanced Heart Failure. Supportive Care: Psychological, Social and Spiritual Aspects. Communication in Heart Failure. Advance Care Planning, Mental Capacity Act, etc. Shared Decision Making. Care of the Patients Dying from Heart Failure. Young People. Palliative Care Services for People with Heart Failure.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
ISBN-10	1-910227-35-8 / 1910227358
ISBN-13	978-1-910227-35-0 / 9781910227350
Zustand	Neuware