Improving outcomes in chronic heart failure [[electronic resource] ] : specialist nurse intervention from research to practice / / edited by Simon Stewart, Lynda Blue

• Record Nr.: UNISA996201854803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : BMJ, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-19670-X; 9786610196708; 0-585-39521-7; 0-470-75055-3; 0-470-75019-7
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BlueLynda; StewartSimon <1964->
• Disciplina: 610.73691
• Soggetti: Heart failure - Nursing; Nursing specialties
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: Specialist nurse intervention from research to practice""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Section 1: Background""; ""1 Increased health care utilisation and costs: heart failure in the 21st century""; ""2 State of the art treatment for chronic heart failure""; ""3 Specialist nurse intervention in chronic heart failure: the evidence to date""; ""Section 2: The Glasgow experience""; ""4 Glasgow Heart Failure Liaison Service: a model for future services""; ""5 Establishing national heart failure services: can we afford not to?""""Section 3: From theory to practice""; ""6 A blueprint for identifying and managing patients within a heart failure service""; ""7 Assessing the patient with heart failure""; ""8 Optimising the day to day management of patients with chronic heart failure""; ""9 Pharmacological treatment for chronic heart failure: a specialist nurse perspective""; ""Section 4: The future""; ""10 New frontiers in specialist nurse management of heart failure""; ""Appendices: some practical advice""; ""Appendix 1: Profile of the specialist heart failure nurse""""Appendix 2: Case studies in managing chronic heart failure""; ""Appendix 3: Supporting the caregiver in heart failure""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath. It also requires complex nursing and medical treatment, especially after a hospital admission, which is all too frequent for persons with heart failure.This book describes and discusses the latest research concerning the benefits of having specially trained nurses manage the care of patients with heart failure after they have been discharged from hospital to their own home. Leading nurses and doctors from around the world discuss their experiences with this type of innovative and effective care progra