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11 Hospice and palliative care for advanced cardiac diseases in hong kong
Advanced cardiac diseases are common non-cancer conditions that require good palliative care. Palliative Care should embrace both cancer and non-cancer conditions, and is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies. There is a high prevalence of symptoms and distress in heat failure (HF) necessitating palliative care, which include not just dyspnoea and oedema but also a range of other symptoms that are all sub-optimally controlled at the end of life.1 For patients with HF, palliative care attends to physical, psychological, social and spiritual distress, caring for both patients and fam...
Source: Heart Asia - April 24, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Lo, R. S. Tags: Keynote Lecture Source Type: research