Because of the episodic nature of symptoms in CHF and its overall poor prognosis, it remains a real possibility that if the issue of end-of-life care is not addressed early in patients with CHF, the patients may not survive long enough to discuss it....
who died from coronary heart disease, the authors compared those with incident and definite congestive heart failure (CHF) (n=60; 15%) and those with prevalent or probable CHF (n =70; 17.5%) to those with no history of CHF (n=198; 50%) concerning health status at the end of life....
and congestive heart failure. These symptoms,if unrelieved, are distressing to both the patients and theirfamilies and preclude any possibility of relieving psy-chological, social, and spiritual suffering, improving qual-ity of life, or completing life closure. Therefore, the objec-tive of this art...
(LVAD) support—to determine if there were differences in preferences between patients with mild heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] Class II) and severe heart failure (NYHA Class IV), and also to determine whether quality of life, perceived severity of symptoms and overall health ...
Chronic heart failure (HF) is a common manifestation of cardiovascular (CV) disease, affecting almost 6 million adults in the United States (Mozaffarian et al., Circulation 133(4):e38–e360, 2016). Despite overall improvements in cardiovascular health, t
While many of the physical symptoms that are associated with the end can be managed to one degree or another, unfortunately end-of-life confusion can be much harder to manage. The reasons for this difficulty are quite obvious: people suffering from end-of-life confusion can demonstrate a ...
George is sixty-four and has a history of congestive heart failure. One night he is taken to the hospital with chest pain. George and those closest to him had previously decided that, no matter what, the doctor should try to do everything medically possible to extend George's life. So,...
heart failure patients randomizedto the exercise group had an increase intheir peak exercise oxygen consumptionand an improvement in the myocardialthallium score. Measures of their quali-ty of life improved parallel to the increasein peak oxygen consumption.37Exercisetraining has also been shown to lea...
Unit 1 Doctor’s Life 1.Do you agreethat it is sheer neuron overload on the doctor side that leads to the complaintthat doctors don’t listen?神经过载→医生不听的抱怨 nNeuron overload神经过载 nPatients’ high expectations患者高期望
Terminal illnesses such as advancedchronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), chronicrenal failure,congestive heart failure(CHF), andcancercan leave both patients and their caregivers extremely apprehensive and stressed. End-of-life care (also calledhospiceor palliative care) aims to improve the quality...