End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice
Background. Chronic heart failure is common, particularly in older individuals, and comorbidities are frequent. Patients with end stage heart failure can be highly symptomatic and require careful monitoring and treatment adjustment to improve symptoms. Objective. This article summarises the fundamen...
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| author | Davidson, Patricia Macdonald, P. Newton, Phillip Currow, D. |
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| description | Background. Chronic heart failure is common, particularly in older individuals, and comorbidities are frequent. Patients with end stage heart failure can be highly symptomatic and require careful monitoring and treatment adjustment to improve symptoms. Objective. This article summarises the fundamentals of implementing palliative care in general practice and provides guidelines on caring patients with chronic heart failure at the end of life. Discussion. The high mortality in chronic heart failure underscores the importance of effective communication, symptom management and advance care planning. The unpredictability and uncertainty around the timing of death mean that individuals, and their families, may be less likely to have an understanding of their prognosis or have access to supportive and palliative care. Ideally, patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure should be managed in collaboration with a multidisciplinary heart failure program. Symptom management can be achieved by additive therapies and access to specialist palliative care services should be considered when the symptom burden is high. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-278022017-01-30T13:01:16Z End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice Davidson, Patricia Macdonald, P. Newton, Phillip Currow, D. heart failure general practice palliative care Background. Chronic heart failure is common, particularly in older individuals, and comorbidities are frequent. Patients with end stage heart failure can be highly symptomatic and require careful monitoring and treatment adjustment to improve symptoms. Objective. This article summarises the fundamentals of implementing palliative care in general practice and provides guidelines on caring patients with chronic heart failure at the end of life. Discussion. The high mortality in chronic heart failure underscores the importance of effective communication, symptom management and advance care planning. The unpredictability and uncertainty around the timing of death mean that individuals, and their families, may be less likely to have an understanding of their prognosis or have access to supportive and palliative care. Ideally, patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure should be managed in collaboration with a multidisciplinary heart failure program. Symptom management can be achieved by additive therapies and access to specialist palliative care services should be considered when the symptom burden is high. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27802 http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/201012/201012davidson.pdf The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners fulltext |
| spellingShingle | heart failure general practice palliative care Davidson, Patricia Macdonald, P. Newton, Phillip Currow, D. End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice |
| title | End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice |
| title_full | End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice |
| title_fullStr | End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice |
| title_short | End stage heart failure patients: Palliative care in general practice |
| title_sort | end stage heart failure patients: palliative care in general practice |
| topic | heart failure general practice palliative care |
| url | http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/201012/201012davidson.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27802 |