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    Supportive care in heart failure / edited by James Beattie and Sarah J. Goodlin.

    • Title:Supportive care in heart failure / edited by James Beattie and Sarah J. Goodlin.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Beattie, James.
      Goodlin, Sarah.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Heart failure--Palliative treatment.
    • Description:xvi, 491 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
    • Series:Supportive care series.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780198570288 (cloth)
      0198570287 (cloth)
    • Contents:1. overview of supportive care in heart failure / Sarah J. Goodlin and James Beattie
      Pt. 1. Heart failure
      2. epidemiology of heart failure / John G. F. Cleland
      3. Heart failure: pathophysiology / Yasuhiro Ikeda, Takeshi Yamamoto, Masafumi Yano and Masunori Matsuzaki
      4. Heart failure - optimal pharmacological therapy / J. Paul Rocchiccioli and John J. V. McMurray
      5. Device therapy for heart failure patients / Sarah J. Goodlin and Mandeep R. Mehra
      6. Advanced heart failure: the role of the surgeon / Stephen Westaby and Gabriele B. Bertoni
      7. Interdisciplinary care in heart failure / Tiny Jaarsma
      Pt. 2. Patient symptomatic burden
      8. Quality of life in heart failure / Corrine Jurgens, Jom Suwanno and Barbara Riegel
      9. Dyspnoea / Patricia M. Davidson, Phillip J. Newton and Peter S. Macdonald
      10. Sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure / Lip Bun Tan, Thomas Kohnlein and Mark W. Elliott
      11. Fatigue and exercise intolerance / Rebecca Boxer and Ileana Pina
      12. Pain in heart failure patients / Sue Wingate and Mary S. Wheeler
      13. Cardiac cachexia / Mitja Lainscak, Anja Sandek and Stefan D. Anker
      14. Cognitive impairment / Giuseppe Zuccala, Alice Laudisio and Roberto Bernabei
      15. Depression and anxiety in patients with chronic heart failure / David Bekelman and Mark D. Sullivan
      16. Spiritual issues a heart failure / Ronald Gillilan and Christina M. Puchalski
      17. elderly patient with heart failure / Christopher Ward and Neil D. Gillespie
      18. course to death in heart failure / Jeffrey Teuteberg and Winifred G. Teuteberg
      19. last few days of life / John E. Ellershaw and Miriam Johnson
      20. Bereavement support for patients and families / Diane Snyder Cowan and Karen Hatfield
      Pt. 3. Prognostication and communication
      21. Mortality risk assessment and prognostication / Maral Ouzounian, Jack V. Tu, Peter C. Austin and Douglas S. Lee
      22. Communication between clinicians and their heart failure patients and families / Sarah J. Goodlin and Timothy E. Quill
      23. Decision-making in advanced heart failure / Clyde W. Yancy
      24. Ethical dilemmas in therapy withdrawal / Katrina A. Bramstedt
      25. Challenges of cultural diversity / Cynthia R. Goh
      26. Palliative care research in the face of uncertainty / Angie E. Rogers and Julia M. Addington-Hall
      27. Coping with patients' deaths / Sarah J. Goodlin and Eric J. Cassell.
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