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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
