2nd Edition
Heart Failure and Palliative Care A Team Approach, Second Edition
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.
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
Biography
Miriam Johnson
"This book is a fantastic resource for anyone working with patients with heart failure. It will facilitate the integration of palliative care into heart failure management …"
—British Journal of Hospital Medicine
The book includes chapters on the syndrome of advanced heart failure—optimal therapy, prognosis, symptom relief, supportive care, communication, the need for palliative care, and how to improve terminal care.
Good stuff.
—Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Reviews Editor
