Lynda Blue & Simon Stewart 
Improving Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure [PDF ebook] 
A practical guide to specialist nurse intervention

Heart failure is a condition that often results in chronic tiredness and shortness of breath. It also requires complex nursing and medical treatment, especially after a hospital admission, which is all too frequent for persons with heart failure.

This book describes and discusses the latest research concerning the benefits of having specially trained nurses manage the care of patients with heart failure after they have been discharged from hospital to their own home. Leading nurses and doctors from around the world discuss their experiences with this type of innovative and effective care program.

Building upon these experiences, the book also contains a practical guide to developing this type of care program into a fully functional service that provides quality care to those patients admitted to hospital with heart failure.

Table of Content

Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

Section 1: Background.

1. Increased Health Care Utilisation and Costs: Heart Failure in
the 21st Century.

2. State-of-the-art Treatment of Heart Failure.

3. Specialist Nurse Intervention in Chronic Heart Failure: The
Evidence to Date.

Section 2: The Glasgow Experience.

4. Glasgow Heart Failure Liaison Service: A Model for Future
Services.

5. Establishing National Heart Failure Service: Can We Afford
Not To?.

Section 3: From Theory to Practice.

6. A Blueprint for Identifying and Managing Patients within
Heart Failure Service.

7. Assessing the Patient with Heart Failure.

8. Optimising the Day to Day Management of Patients with Chronic
Heart Failure.

9. Pharmacological Treatment for Chronic Heart Failure: A
Specialist Nurse Perspective.

Section 4: The Future.

10. New Frontiers in Specialist Nurse Management of Heart
Failure.

Appendices.

Index.

About the author

The editors Simon Stewart and Lynda Blue are internationally recognised as pioneers of this major advance in CHF patient care. They have invited leading authors to contribute chapters to this second edition, which will be an invaluable source of information for all specialist cardiac nurses, and other health care workers in CHF.