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Rationale for palliative care in heart failure |
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Rationale for palliative care in heart failure
This section on supportive and palliative care has been designed to support professionals to feel confident about caring for people living with and dying from advanced heart failure. The guidance encourages seamless integration of supportive and palliative care principles, alongside evidence-based heart failure and comorbidity therapies from diagnosis onwards.
Perception and prognostic challenges often lead to a delayed recognition that decline and subsequent death is a possibility by clinicians, patients and families. Opportunities to enable a collaborative, person centred, cardiac supportive and palliative care approach, is often too late or missed completely.
Key Message: Active heart failure care should always run parallel to supportive palliative care. One does not stop for the other to commence.
Click here to find out about cardiac supportive palliative care core components
Key Message: Active heart failure care should always run parallel to supportive palliative care. One does not stop for the other to commence.
Contents:
- Detection
- Diagnosis
- Acute Heart Failure: Diagnosis and management
- Chronic heart failure: Management and treatment
- Discharge and follow-up
- Palliative and psychological care
- Digital support
In this section
- Rationale and introduction
- Cardiac supportive palliative care core components
- Meaningful conversation plan
- Monitoring psychological wellbeing
- Identifying psychological needs
- Stepped psychological care
- Resources - palliative and psychological care
