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Abstract 20: Dying With a Left Ventricular Assist Device as Destination Therapy Session Title: Abstract Oral Session
Conclusions: In contrast to the general heart failure population, most patients with DT-LVAD die in the hospital and very few enroll in hospice. A significant body of research has demonstrated that patients who die in the intensive care unit and the hospital, as opposed to home or with hospice assistance, experience worse quality of life, quality of death and caregiver outcomes. Potential reasons that patients with DT-LVAD may experience different end-of-life care than other patients with heart failure exist, including that they often experience sudden changes in health status prior to death from acute events such as hemor...
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - February 26, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dunlay, S. M., Strand, J. J., Wordingham, S. E., Stulak, J. M., Kushwaha, S. S., Luckhardt, A., Swetz, K. M. Tags: Session Title: Abstract Oral Session Source Type: research

Abstract 118: Discharge Medications, Hospice Use and 30 Day Outcomes for Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients Session Title: Poster Session I
Conclusions: As heart failure progresses, transfer to palliative or hospice services is often appropriate. Including patients when death is imminent in outcome analyses could overestimate medication effects. Mechanisms for identifying such patients other than hospice use are limited but constitute an important goal for future research.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - April 29, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Stearns, S. C., Rodgers, J. E., Chang, P. P., Sueta, C. A. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session I Source Type: research