(Ebook) Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: Specialist Nurse Intervention from Research to Practice, Second Edition by Simon Stewart, Lynda Blue ISBN 9780470750551, 9780727917232, 0470750553, 0727917234

(Ebook) Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: Specialist Nurse Intervention from Research to Practice, Second Edition by Simon Stewart, Lynda Blue ISBN 9780470750551, 9780727917232, 0470750553, 0727917234

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 program.Building upon these experiences, the book also contains a practical guide to developing this type of care program into a fully functional service that provides quality care to those patients admitted to hospital with heart failure.Content: Chapter 1 Increased Health Care Utilisation and Costs: Heart Failure in the 21st Century (pages 1–26): Simon StewartChapter 2 State of the Art Treatment for Chronic Heart Failure (pages 27–44): Simon Stewart and John McMurrayChapter 3 Specialist Nurse Intervention in Chronic Heart Failure: The Evidence to Date (pages 45–66): Simon StewartChapter 4 Glasgow Heart Failure Liaison Service: A Model for Future Services (pages 67–84): Lynda BlueChapter 5 Establishing National Heart Failure Services: Can we Afford not to? (pages 85–92): Simon StewartChapter 6 A Blueprint for Identifying and Managing Patients within a Heart Failure Service (pages 93–123): Kirstin Russell, Alison Freeman, Lynda Blue and Simon StewartChapter 7 Assessing the Patient with Heart Failure (pages 124–145): Margaret B McEntegart and Eric GrayChapter 8 Optimising the Day to Day Management of Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (pages 146–162): Iona McKay and Simon StewartChapter 9 Pharmacological Treatment for Chronic Heart Failure: A Specialist Nurse Perspective (pages 163–183): Yvonne MillerickChapter 10 New Frontiers in Specialist Nurse Management of Heart Failure (pages 185–197): Lynda Blue and Simon Stewart