PART 1: HEART FAILURE1. Introduction - an overview of supportive care in heart failure, James Beattie and Sarah Goodlin2. The epidemiology of heart failure, John Cleland3. The pathophysiology of heart failure, Masunori Matsuzaki, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Takeshi Yamamoto, Masafumi Yano4. Heart failure optimal pharmacological therapy, Paul Rocchiccioli and John McMurray5. Device therapy for heart failure patients, Mandeep Mehra and Sarah Goodlin6. Advanced heart failure, the role of the surgeon, Stephen Westaby and Gabriele Bertoni7. Interdisciplinary care, Tiny JaarsmaPART 2: PATIENT - SYMPTOMATIC BURDEN8.
Quality of life in heart failure, Barbara Riegel, Corrine Jurgens and Jom Suwanno9. Dyspnoea, Patricia Davidson, Phillip Newton and Peter MacDonald10. Sleep disordered breathing in congestive heart failure, Lip-Bun Tan, Thomas Köhnlein and Mark Elliott11. Fatigue and exercise intolerance, Rebecca Boxer and Ileana Pina12. Pain in heart failure patients, Suzanne Wingate and Mary Wheeler13. Cardiac cachexia, Stefan Anker, Mitja Lainscak and Anja Sandek14. Cognitive impairment, Guiseppe Zuccala, Alice Laudisio and Roberto Bernabei15. Depression and anxiety in patients with chronic heart failure, David Bekelman and Mark Sullivan16.
Spiritual support is important to heart failure patients, Christina Puchalski and Ronald Gillilan17. Heart failure in the elderly/co-morbidities, Chris Ward and Neil Gillespie18. The course to death in heart failure, Jeffrey Teuteberg and Winnefred Teuteberg19. The last few days of life, John Ellershaw and Miriam Johnson20. Bereavement support for patients and families, Diane Snyder Cowan and Karen HatfieldPART 3: PROGNOSTICATION AND COMMUNICATION21. Mortality risk assessment and prognostication, Douglas Lee, Peter Austin, Jack Tu and Maral Ouzounian22. Communication between clinicians and their heart failure patients and families, Timothy Quill and Sarah Goodlin23. Decision-making in advanced heart failure, Clyde Yancy24.
Ethical dilemmas in therapy withdrawal, Katrina A. Bramstedt25. Challenges of cultural diversity, Cynthia Goh26. Palliative care research in the face of uncertainty, Julia Addington-Hall and Angie Rogers27. Coping with patients' deaths, Eric Cassell and Sarah Goodlin.