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.

About the Author
Miriam Johnson is professor of Palliative Medicine at Hull and an honorary consultant in Palliative Medicine at St. Catherine's Hospice Scarborough and Acute Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Healthcare Trust. She has strong clinical research bases in oncology and heart failure at Castle Hill Hospital. Additional clinical research partnerships include clinicians in her own clinical base in Scarborough, which includes a current joint project in Parkinsons' Disease.

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

Book Information
ISBN 9781910227350
Author Miriam Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 400g