Heart Failure
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Author(s): R. Gardner, T. McDonagh and N. Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199205738
Format: softback
543pp
Price: £34.95
Review Date: 25 October 2007
Review: This handbook is an A-to-Z heart failure (the inability for the heart to pump sufficient oxygenated blood to the metabolizing tissues despite an adequate filling pressure). It aims to comprehensively cover all aspects of managing a patient with heart failure, giving simple advice on the diagnosis, investigation, and available treatment options. It is set out in logical order, to mirror the patient’s journey in heart failure. There are seven sections: chronic heart failure; chronic heart failure and co-morbid conditions; acute heart failure, procedures, detailed pharmacology and evidence base for drugs; how to set up and run a heart-failure service; and end of life and palliative care issues.