Christopher Nicholson

Heart Failure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook provides a much needed introductory text to heart failure for students and nurses new to the area as well as an invaluable source of information in daily clinical practice for more experienced nurses, who are regularly seeing patients with heart failure.

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Caring for people with heart failure is challenging and with the numbers of patients increasing every year, healthcare professionals are under pressure to provide appropriate, clinically and cost effective heart failure services. Heart Failure: A Clinical Nursing Handbook offers practical information that considers concerns raised by patients, questions asked by student nurses and clinical issues that arise frequently. The introduction examines the epidemiology, physiology, causes and outcomes of heart failure, whilst continuing chapters explore:

_ Diagnosis and assessment: past medical history, the role of clinical assessment, medication reviews and the use of investigations.
_ Treatment: the impact of education and lifestyle, exercise physiology, the role of medicines and invasive procedures and end stage heart failure.
_ Policy and service issues: the historical perspective, specialist services, funding and patient participation and caseload management.

Also discussed is the setting up and running of a heart failure service - the processes, documents, staffing, costs, data handling and business case issues that need to be understood. Practical techniques and tips to support patient understanding, minimise adverse events and treat side effects are also given to help the reader in their practice.

This concise handbook is ideal for clinicians caring for patients with heart failure, pre-registration nursing students, qualified nurses on cardiology courses and community matrons undertaking advanced practise courses.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Series in Nursing
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14505760000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780470057605
• ISBN-10: 0470057602
• Artikelnr.: 23043477

Autorenporträt

Chris Nicholson works as a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse for Central Lancashire PCT where he set up and runs the service. It is a nurse-led, community-based service, with hospital in-reach. The caseload is currently around 350 heart failure patients and the area is a mixed population. Prior to his current job Chris has worked as a nurse and charge nurse on coronary care units in secondary and tertiary cardiac centres and as a Nurse Clinician in Cardiology after having completed his Clinical Masters Degree.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author. Preface. Part I Introduction. 1 Definitions.
Introduction. Historical Outline. Definitions. Terminology. Grading of
Heart Failure. 2 Epidemiology. Overview. Prevalence. Incidence. Subgroup
Differences. Future Trends. 3 Causes. Overview. Ischaemic Heart Disease.
Hypertension. Valve Disease. Arrhythmias. Infection. Alcohol. Diabetes.
Genetic Heart Failure. Other Rare Rauses of Heart Failure. Iatrogenic Heart
Failure. 4 Outcomes. Prognosis. Mortality. Morbidity. Quality of Life.
Health Economics. 5 Physiology. The Normal Heart. The Failing Heart. Part
II Diagnosis and Assessment. 6 Clinical Assessment. Role of Clinical
Assessment. Assessment Skills. Presenting Complaint. Past Medical History.
Lifestyle Review (Social History). Medication Review. Symptoms of Heart
Failure. Signs of Heart Failure. Signs of Structural Change. Systemic
Signs. Assessment Tools and Competency. 7 Investigations. Use of
Investigations. Investigations for Diagnosis. Investigations for Follow-up.
Heart Failure Screening. Electrocardiogram (ECG). Echocardiogram. Chest
X-ray (CXR). Blood Tests. Cardiac Catheterisation. Impedance Cardiography
(ICG). Nuclear Imaging. Part III Treatment. 8 Treatment Essentials.
Education. Information. Lifestyle. 9 Exercise Training. Background.
Exercise Physiology. Rationale for Exercise Training. Evidence Base.
Safety. Types of Exercise Training. Service Delivery. 10 Medicines.
Overview. Guidelines. Treatment Principles. Elderly Patients. Asymptomatic
Patients. Nursing Role. Diuretics. ACE-inhibitors. Angiotensin II Receptor
Blockers (A2RB). Beta-blockers. Aldosterone Antagonists. Digoxin. Nitrates.
Other Vasodilators. Oxygen. Inotropes. Anti-arrhythmic drugs. Opioids.
Drugs to Avoid. 11 Invasive Treatments. Role of Invasive Treatments.
Cardiac Surgery. Devices. Emerging Technologies. 12 End-Stage Heart
Failure. Defining 'End-Stage' Heart Failure. The Dying Heart. Symptoms.
Resuscitation Issues. Psychological and Spiritual Dimension. Family and
Carers. Specialist Palliative Care. Service Issues. Part IV Policy and
Service Issues. 13 Policy Framework. Historical Perspective. National
Service Frameworks. Professional Guidelines Specific to Heart Failure.
Primary and Secondary Care. Future Developments. 14 Service Issues. Heart
Failure Services. Funding. Key Partners. Patient Participation. Identifying
Patients. Referrals. Service Effectiveness. Heart Failure: Clinical Trials
Index. Glossary and Abbreviations. References. Index.

Rezensionen

"This book is easy to read, despite having minimal pictures and diagrams. It would be a helpful tool for students, newly qualified nurses and any practitioner requiring a refresher or update on heart failure." ( British Journal of Perioperative Nursing , June 2009) This useful handbook introduces the reader to key issues in enhancing the care of patients with heart failure. ( British Journal of Cardiac Nursing , July 2008) "An absolute must for any practitioner involved in running a heart failure service and should also be on the shelf of every university library, coronary care unit, medical unit and GP surgery." ( Nursing Standard , May 2008)