| Title |
Palliative Care in Heart Failure
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11936-018-0634-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Abhinav Sood, Krista Dobbie, W. H. Wilson Tang |
| Abstract |
This review illustrates the dynamic role of palliative care in heart failure management and encapsulates the commonly utilized pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapeutic strategies for symptom palliation in heart failure. In addition, we provide our experience regarding patient care issues common to the domain of heart failure and palliative medicine which are commonly encountered by heart failure teams. Addition of palliative care to conventional heart failure management plan results in improvement in quality of life, anxiety, depression, and spiritual well-being among patients. Palliative care should not be confused with hospice care. Palliative care teams should be involved early in the care of heart failure patients with the aims of improving symptom palliation, discussing goals of care and improving quality of life without compromising utilization of evidence-based heart failure therapies. A consensus on the appropriate timing of involvement and evidence for many symptom palliation therapies is still emerging. |
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