TY - BOOK ID - 78641513 TI - Heart failure AU - Gardner, Roy S AU - McDonagh, Theresa A AU - Walker, Nicola L PY - 2014 SN - 0191781800 0191655686 9780191655685 1306948363 9781306948364 9780199674152 0199674159 0191034142 PB - Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Heart failure KW - Cardiac failure KW - Cardiac insufficiency KW - Failure, Heart KW - Insufficiency, Cardiac KW - Heart KW - Cardiac arrest KW - Diseases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641513 AB - Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-speciality of cardiology. Many health care professional bodies are now developing specialist expertise in heart failure. This is true for cardiologists in training, consultant cardiologists, care of the elderly and general physicians, cardiothoracic surgeons, primary care doctors, pharmacists and specialist nurses. With advances in medical therapy, the prognosis of the condition has improved dramatically. Whereas once heart failure was a pre-terminal diagnosis, now for many it is treatable. However, some patients remain symptomatic and at hi ER -