Heart failure and palliative care1998

"Heart failure is a very common terminal condition, but few heart patients receive proper palliative care. Full of practical, evidence based advice, this new guide encourages a multidisciplinary team based approach to heart failure and palliative care. 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. Heart Failure and Palliative Care offers optimum care solutions vital to all palliative care professionals in a wide variety of hospital and community settings. It also provides invaluable advice for primary care, cardiology and other healthcare professionals including heart failure nurse specialists, consultants, and ward nurses. 'Those reading...