Overview
This book is a guide to help clinicians caring for people with advanced heart failure develop a team approach for a group of people who, despite the increased awareness, remains disadvantaged in accessing support to help them live with, and support them as they die from, this serious illness.
Full Product Details
Author: Miriam Johnson ,
Richard Lehman ,
Karen J. Hogg (Consultant Cardiologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd edition
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781138456464
ISBN 10: 1138456462
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 13 July 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
"""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 ""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 “First, it is an updated review of symptom control and palliation of end stage cardiac disease, which is very helpful for non-cardiologists working in palliative care. Second, it emphasises optimising service provisions, including a team approach (i.e. not just the patient and the cardiologist). And third, because it announces that Karen Hogg has been appointed as the UK’s first cardiologist with a special interest in palliative care, which I regard as recognition of a clinical need…Good stuff.” —Roger Woodruff, April 2017"
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 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 First, it is an updated review of symptom control and palliation of end stage cardiac disease, which is very helpful for non-cardiologists working in palliative care. Second, it emphasises optimising service provisions, including a team approach (i.e. not just the patient and the cardiologist). And third, because it announces that Karen Hogg has been appointed as the UK's first cardiologist with a special interest in palliative care, which I regard as recognition of a clinical need...Good stuff. -Roger Woodruff, April 2017
