This review provides a framework for clinicians to administer end-of-life care, focusing on decision-making, symptom management, and functional management in heart failure patients.
May inform palliative decision-making in advanced HF; leaves open prospective validation of the framework.
As the population of patients living with heart failure increases, the number of patients who will die with and from heart failure increases as well. End-of-life care in patients with heart failure is an additive process, whereby therapies to treat symptoms not alleviated by guideline-based medical therapy are integrated into the care of these individuals. This review focuses on providing clinicians with a basic framework for administration of end-of-life care in patients with heart failure, specifically focusing on decision-making, symptom management and functional management.
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