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" A practical guide to heart failure in older people / "
editors, Christopher Ward and Miles D. Witham.
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1007924
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b762294
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A practical guide to heart failure in older people /\ editors, Christopher Ward and Miles D. Witham.
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Chichester, UK ;Hoboken, NJ :: Wiley-Blackwell,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) :: illustrations
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047069517X
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: 0470742933
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: 0470742941
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: 9780470695173
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: 9780470742938
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: 9780470742945
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Epidemiology / Christopher Ward -- Heart failure and the aging heart / Helen Oxenham -- Aetiology / Christopher Ward -- Diagnosis / Christopher Ward -- Pharmacological treatment / Miles D. Witham -- Non-pharmacological management / Sinéad P. McKee and Miles D. Witham -- Comorbidity / Andrew Elder -- Treatment and management in primary care / Alan Begg -- The role of the specialist nurse / Sinéad P. McKee -- The role of the heart failure specialist / Maheshwar Pauriah, Aaron K.F. Wong and Chim C. Lang -- Hospitalization / Andrew Hannah -- Models of care and disease management programmes / Martin Wilson and Stephen J. Leslie -- Palliative and supportive care for patients with advanced and terminal heart failure / Christopher Ward [and others].
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The objectives of treating and managing patients with heart failure are in many respects independent of age, but the management of older patients is more difficult and more complex than in younger patients: The diagnosis is easily overlooked, they have mu.
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Geriatric cardiology.
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Heart failure.
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Geriatric cardiology.
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Heart failure.
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MEDICAL-- Geriatrics.
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MEDICAL-- Nursing-- Gerontology.
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Heart Failure-- therapy.
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Aged.
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| Dewey Classification
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618.97/129
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RC685.C53P733 2009eb
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WG 370P8955 2009
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Ward, Christopher,1939-
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Witham, Miles.
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