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
This pocket-sized OUP Specialist Handbook provides a wealth of
information about the supportive and palliative care of patients
with heart failure. . . I was impressed by the amount of
information, clearly set out in bullet-point lists, and by the
Table of Contents and the system of headings which make that
information accessible.
*Dr. Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews*
A comprehensive approach to the psychological and psychosocial
needs of heart failure patients and their caregivers is unique and
presented in easy-to-read summaries. This is a useful tool for any
professional working with clients in heart failure.
*Doody's Reviews*
This is a clearly structured and transparently written guidebook
directed at medical, nursing and allied professional specialists in
heart failure, a more general cardiology population and palliative
care staff. It aims to guide the identification of advanced heart
failure and advise on its holistic management.
*European Journal on Palliative Care, Jan 2013*
Have the authors achieved their aim in producing of valuable
practical 'pocket' reference? To me they have clearly succeeded in
this, with a clear concise guide to the complexities of advanced
heart failure, which should be a valuable resource to all those
involved in the care of patients with this condition.
*BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, Jan 2013*
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