Key result
Specialized palliative care improves refractory symptoms and quality of life in terminal chronic heart failure.
Why the study?
Despite treatment-resistant symptoms and needs similar to oncological patients, chronic heart failure patients rarely receive specialized palliative care.
How can specialized palliative care be provided to patients with chronic heart failure in the terminal phase?
How can specialized palliative care be provided to patients with chronic heart failure in the terminal phase?
This review emphasizes the importance of integrating specialized palliative care into the management of patients with terminal chronic heart failure.
Supports palliative care integration in terminal HF; leaves open optimal delivery models and timing for prospective evaluation.
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is an important healthcare problem because of high prevalence, morbidity and mortality rates. Treatment resistant symptoms, need for communication and support, unite patients with CHF and oncological diseases but despite that CHF patients rarely receive specialized palliative care (SPC). This review is devoted to the need and possible ways of providing SPC to patients with CHF and their families. We discuss here variants of CHF course in terminal phase, the term end of life appropriate care, various specialists' concepts of SPC delivering to CHF patients in accordance with their preferences.
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Ларина et al. (2019) conducted a review in Chronic heart failure. Palliative care was evaluated. Specialized palliative care is essential for patients with terminal chronic heart failure to manage treatment-resistant symptoms and improve quality of life, though it remains underutilized.
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