Heart Failure A Clinical Nursing Handbook [Paperback]

This book provides a complete, easy-to-use handbook for nurses who see patients with heart failure. In recent years heart failure has become a high priority in health care. With more nurses caring for patients with heart failure and making decisions that are often complex, there is a clear need for those nurses to have access to good quality clinical information and guidance. This book is designed to be a practical, ‘one-stop’, handbook for the practitioner, supported by case studies and up-todate references throughout, providing all the topics the Practitioner or student may need in their work with patients with heart failure.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.