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Palliative cardiovascular care: The right patient at the right time

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In the increasingly complex world of modern medicine, relationship‐centered, team‐based care is important in geriatric cardiology. Palliative cardiovascular care plays a central role in defining the scope and timing of… Click to show full abstract

In the increasingly complex world of modern medicine, relationship‐centered, team‐based care is important in geriatric cardiology. Palliative cardiovascular care plays a central role in defining the scope and timing of medical therapies and in coordinating symptom‐targeted care in line with patient wishes, values, and preferences. Palliative care addresses advance care planning, symptom relief and caregiver/family support and seeks to ameliorate all forms of suffering, including physical, psychological, and spiritual. Although palliative care grew out of the hospice movement and has traditionally been associated with care at the end of life, the current model acknowledges that palliative care can be delivered concurrent with invasive, life‐prolonging interventions. As the population ages, patients with serious cardiovascular disease increasingly suffer from noncardiac, multimorbid conditions and become eligible for interventions that palliate symptoms but also prolong life. Management of implanted cardiac support devices at the end of life, whether rhythm management devices or mechanical circulatory support devices, can involve a host of complexities in decisions to deactivate, timing of deactivation and even the mechanics of deactivation. Studies on palliative care interventions have demonstrated clear improvements in quality of life and are more mixed on life prolongation and cost savings. There is and will remain a dearth of clinicians with specialist palliative care training. Therefore, cardiovascular clinicians have a role to play in provision of practical, “primary” palliative care.

Keywords: cardiology; cardiovascular care; palliative care; palliative cardiovascular; care; life

Journal Title: Clinical Cardiology
Year Published: 2019

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