Heart Failure. A Team Approach
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Author(s): M. Johnson and R. Lehman
Publisher: Radcliffe Medical Press
ISBN: 1857756436
Format: softback
150pp
Price: £24.95, $48.00
Review Date: 26 October 2006
Review: The complex syndrome of advanced heart failure, with its accompanying physical, social, psychological and spiritual problems, presents a challenge to all clinicians. This book is written by practising doctors and nurses who give practical, evidence-based advice. They summarise the processes of advanced heart failure, give a guide to the use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies, and give guidance on how to determine predictions about individuals. They also look at relief of both physical symptoms and the psychosocial and spiritual aspects. Other chapters discuss communication with the patients, care of the dying, palliative care for young people, and patient care services.