Heart Failure and Palliative Care

ISBN 10: 1910227358 / ISBN 13: 9781910227350

Published by Routledge, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heart Failure and Palliative Care
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910227358
• ISBN 13: 9781910227350
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.