Palliative care in terminal cardiac failure

Domiciliary, Palliative, and Terminal Care

Palliative Care in Heart Failure

HISTORY OF THE PALLIATIVE CARE MOVEMENT The palliative care model and the clinical and research agenda of the palliative care movement were largely developed in the late 1950s by Dame Cicely Saunders, a British physician. Saunders, who had read philosophy and politics at Oxford, was trained as a nurse and social worker before obtaining her medical degree. With this unusual background, she resol...

Palliative care in congestive heart failure.

Symptoms and compromised quality of life prevail throughout the course of heart failure (HF) and thus should be specifically addressed with palliative measures. Palliative care for HF should be integrated into comprehensive HF care, just as evidence-based HF care should be included in end-of-life care for HF patients. The neurohormonal and catabolic derangements in HF are at the base of HF symp...

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

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 fundamentals of implementing palliative care in general practice and provides guidelines on caring for ch...