A practical guide to heart failure in older people
By: [edited by] Christopher Ward, Miles Witham.
Contributors: Ward, Christopher, 1939-; Witham, Miles.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470695173
Subjects: Heart failure; Geriatric cardiology; Heart Failure -- therapy; Aged
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology / Christopher Ward; title: Heart failure and the aging heart / Helen Oxenham; title: Aetiology / Christopher Ward; title: Diagnosis / Christopher Ward; title: Pharmacological treatment / Miles D. Witham; title: Non-pharmacological management / Sinéad P. McKee and Miles D. Witham; title: Comorbidity / Andrew Elder; title: Treatment and management in primary care / Alan Begg; title: The role of the specialist nurse / Sinéad P. McKee; title: The role of the heart failure specialist / Maheshwar Pauriah, Aaron K.F. Wong and Chim C. Lang; title: Hospitalization / Andrew Hannah; title: Models of care and disease management programmes / Martin Wilson and Stephen J. Leslie; title: Palliative and supportive care for patients with advanced and terminal heart failure / Christopher Ward ... [et al.].