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Nurse specialists centrally coordinate the complex, expensive, and palliative care required for PAH patients.
Highlights the critical role of nurse specialists in coordinating complex, expensive, and palliative care for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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May support expanded nurse specialist roles in PAH coordination; leaves open prospective trials to confirm outcomes and costs.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains a devastating disease. All current medical therapy is expensive, complex and largely palliative. The management of PAH patients requires co-ordination between the patient, their support system, third party payers and healthcare professionals. The nurse specialist serves to organise these entities, balancing the needs of the patient and the PAH programme. The care of the PAH patient requires equal attention to avoiding potentially harmful procedures and medications, maximising conventional therapy and utilisation of new PAH-specific medical treatment.
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Traci Housten-Harris (2007) conducted a review in Pulmonary arterial hypertension. Nurse specialist care was evaluated. The nurse specialist plays a central role in coordinating the complex, expensive, and palliative care required for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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