Palliative medicine for patients with advanced heart failure: New evidence
| Autor: | J.J. de Arriba Méndez, C. Olmeda Brull, J. Solís García del Pozo, M. Corbí Pascual |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care Palliative treatment business.industry Mortality rate General Medicine medicine.disease Clinical trial 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Heart failure Intervention (counseling) medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Active treatment Patient group Intensive care medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Revista Clínica Española (English Edition). 219:332-341 |
| ISSN: | 2254-8874 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.rceng.2018.09.010 |
| Popis: | Although heart failure is one of the most common clinical syndromes in medicine and has a high mortality rate, few patients have access to adequate palliative care for their clinical situation. Several trials have recently been published on the usefulness of starting palliative treatment along with cardiac treatment for patients with advanced heart failure. In this review, we analyze the aspects of diagnosing and controlling the symptoms of patients with advanced heart failure and provide a collection of clinical trials that have analyzed the efficacy of a palliative intervention in this patient group. Physicians need to be equipped with strategies for recognizing the need for this type of intervention without it resulting in neglecting the active treatment of the patient's heart failure. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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