Key result
Specialized palliative care is essential for patients with chronic heart failure to manage treatment-resistant symptoms and improve quality of life, especially in the terminal phase.
Why the study?
Chronic heart failure carries high morbidity and treatment-resistant symptoms, yet patients with CHF rarely receive specialized palliative care.
Specialized palliative care is essential for patients with advanced chronic heart failure to manage treatment-resistant symptoms and improve quality of life.
May support palliative care integration for refractory HF symptoms; leaves open need for prospective trials before practice change.
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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SHAVDIA et al. (2022) conducted a review in Chronic heart failure. Specialized palliative care was evaluated. Specialized palliative care is essential for patients with chronic heart failure to manage treatment-resistant symptoms and improve quality of life, especially in the terminal phase.
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