Heart Failure: From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
- ISBN-10
- 0199299307
- ISBN-13
- 9780199299300
- Series
- Heart Failure
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-05
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Max Watson, Karen Hogg, Miriam Johnson
Description
Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible. In easily digestible summaries, this book presents practical advice about how and when to integrate a palliative care approach alongside standard heart failure management.
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- 2013-07-04
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- 2013-06-21
- 128 pages
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