A practical guide to heart failure in older people / editors, Christopher Ward and Miles D. Witham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Christopher, 1939-

Witham, Miles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart failure.

Geriatric cardiology.

Heart Failure--therapy.

Aged.

Medical Subjects:

Heart Failure--therapy.

Aged.

Physical Description:

xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Heart failure in older people

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Summary:

Heart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty per cent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This figure is likely to increase significantly in the next two decades. The prognosis is worse than that of most cancers and heart failure is the commonest reason for hospital admission in the over 65s.

The problems associated with treating heart failure in older patients are more diverse and complex than in those who are younger. The diagnosis in older patients is easily overlooked, and as they were excluded from most heart failure treatment trials there has been a reluctance to treat them optimally (fewer than 20 per cent are prescribed conventional medicines). In addition, older people often suffer from poorly managed multiple co-morbidities, repeated hospitalisation and potential social isolation.

These important age-related treatment and management problems have been largely ignored and this book aims to redress the balance. It provides a concise, comprehensive account of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, management and end-of-life care of elderly patients with heart failure, based on published studies.

A Practical Guide to Heart Failure in Older People is essential reading for geriatricians, cardiologists, general hospital physicians, family practitioners and specialist nurses.

Specifically addresses the particular needs of the elderly, a largely ignored group who constitute the majority of patients with heart failure

Presents a concise yet comprehensive account of the evidence relating to the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart failure in this population

Improves awareness of the various roles within the management team

Contents:

Epidemiology / Christopher Ward

Heart failure and the aging heart / Helen Oxenham

Aetiology / Christopher Ward

Diagnosis / Christopher Ward

Pharmacological treatment / Miles D. Witham

Non-pharmacological management / Sinéad P. McKee and Miles D. Witham

Comorbidity / Andrew Elder

Treatment and management in primary care / Alan Begg

The role of the specialist nurse / Sinéad P. McKee

The role of the heart failure specialist / Maheshwar Pauriah, Aaron K.F. Wong and Chim C. Lang

Hospitalization / Andrew Hannah

Models of care and disease management programmes / Martin Wilson and Stephen J. Leslie

Palliative and supportive care for patients with advanced and terminal heart failure / Christopher Ward ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470695173

047069517X

OCLC:

288985588