As the number of people with heart failure rises year-on-year, and the range of treatment options that can be considered increases, the challenge is for the patient not to become 'lost' in the process of delivering high-quality multidisciplinary care. The nurse has a key role to play in ensuring a holistic approach is adopted. This book has been written by those with much pracitcal experience of working with people living, and dying, with heart failure.
The number of people suffering from this debilitating condition is predicted to grow exponentially over the next decade. This has serious implications for the health services.
Investigating heart failure is not cheap even where facilities exist. The drugs used, though effective - often remarkably so - are also costly as are laboratory investigations. These again are not cheap. People with heart failure require frequent admissions to hospital and occupy many beds and much staff attention. All of these factors are set to increase over the next decades.
This eclectic collection of papers tackles many of the issues that concern those who care for individuals with heart failure; organisation of services, exercise, palliative care amongst them, but also novel and rarely discussed issues.
Contents include:
Heart failure in the community: a confusion of protocols
District nurses meeting the challenge of heart failure
The care of patients who develop heart failure alongside mental health problems
Adults with congenital heart disease and heart failure
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
Congestive heart failure and cognitive dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction in heart failure
Exercise training in the management of patients with heart failure: a review of the evidence
Exercise: the things we don't know
Improved symptom control in palliative care for heart failure
Improving palliative care service provision for patients with heart failure
Assisted dying and heart failure
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