Issues in heart failure nursing
edited by Chris Jones ; foreword by Martin Cowie.
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Keswick [England] : : M&K Update, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (168 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Prelims; Table of contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Heart failure in the community; Chapter 2 District nurses meeting the challenge of heart failure; Chapter 3 The care of patients who develop heart failure alongside mental health problems; Chapter 4 Adults with congenital heart disease and heart failure; Chapter 5 Cardiac resynchronisation therapy; Chapter 6 Congestive heart failure and cognitive dysfunction; Chapter 7 Sexual dysfunction in heart failure; Chapter 8 Exercise training in the management of patients with heart failure. - Chapter 9 Exercise: the things we don't knowChapter 10 Improved symptom control in palliative care for heart failure; Chapter 11 Improving palliative care service provision for patients with heart failure; Chapter 12 Assisted dying and heart failure; New York Heart Association Scale; Index. - The number of people suffering from this debilitating condition is predicted to grow exponentially over the next decade. This has serious implications for the health services. Investigating heart failure is not cheap even where facilities exist. The drugs used, though effective - often remarkably so - are also costly as are laboratory investigations. These again are not cheap. People with heart failure require frequent admissions to hospital and occupy many beds and much staff attention. All of these factors are set to increase over the next decades.This eclectic collection of papers tackles m
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| ISBN | 1-282-13564-3. - 1-907830-00-6. - 9786612135644
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