Heart Failure and Palliative Care: A Team Approach
Heart Failure and Palliative Care: A Team Approach
Book Details
Paperback: 150 pages
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers; 1 edition (November 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857756436
ISBN-13: 978-1857756432.
Book Description
This book contains a foreword by Robert Twycross. “Those reading this book will be inspired to look at local ways to address the inequity of access to supportive and palliative care for patients with heart failure. We hope that a future book might describe a very different picture as the research base of symptom control and service provision develops over coming years” – Miriam Johnson and Richard Lehman. “”Heart Failure and Palliative Care: A Team Approach” is an exciting book. It is exciting for the traditional ‘old-style’ palliative care clinician (like me) whose practice and expertise is almost entirely limited to end-stage malignant disease. I believe it will also be exciting for cardiology clinicians. It will liberate them (if liberation is needed) from the narrow ‘bio-medical’ model of disease management, and enable them to adopt a more holistic patient-centred approach. This means that the focus will be on a PERSON with heart failure, rather than a person with HEART FAILURE. On paper, this may seem a small difference but in practice the change of focus has a big effect.” – Robert Twycross, in the Foreword.
