▶ Video 5: Heart failure and palliative care

Find out more about palliative care and heart failure through this bitesize learning video, one in a series on the condition.

This independent video learning series on heart failure is funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly Alliance. The BI Lilly Alliance had no influence over the content.

Summary: This bitesize learning video will cover person-centred heart failure palliative care.

Presenter: Yvonne Millerick, nurse consultant, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and senior lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University.

The video will seek to answer the following questions:
• What is the role of person-centred palliative care in heart failure? An overview of a cardiac palliative care approach to enable seamless integration into everyday clinical practice
• Why is supportive palliative care needed?
• What inhibits seamless integration of supportive palliative care in heart failure?
• What are the core components of a heart failure palliative care approach?
• How does this change practice?

The full series:

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This independent video learning series on heart failure is funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly Alliance. The BI Lilly Alliance had no influence over the content, selection of presenter or editorial control.

References:

• Brännström M (2014). Effects of person-centred and integrated chronic heart failure and palliative home care. PREFER: a randomized controlled study. European Journal of Heart Failure; 16: 10, 1142-1151.
• Campbell R (2018) Which patients with heart failure should receive specialist palliative care? European Journal of Heart Failure; 20: 9, 1338-1347.
• Conrad N (2018) Temporal trends and patterns in heart failure incidence: a population-based study of 4 million individuals. The Lancet; 391: 10120, 572-580.
• Currie K (2015) The importance of interactions between patients and healthcare professionals for heart failure self-care: A systematic review of qualitative research into patient perspectives. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing; 14: 6. 525-535.
• Fitzsimons D (2019) Inadequate Communication Exacerbates the Support Needs of Current and Bereaved Caregivers in Advanced Heart Failure and Impedes Shared Decision-making. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing; 34: 1, 11-19.
• Hill L (2020) Integration of a palliative approach into heart failure care: a European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association position paper. European Journal of Heart Failure; 22: 12, 2327-2339.
• Hospice UK (2017) Heart failure and hospice care: how to make a difference.
• Kernick L (2018) Does advance care planning in addition to usual care reduce hospitalisation for patients with advanced heart failure: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Palliative Medicine; 32: 10, 1539-1551.
• National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (2018) Failure to Function: A review of care received by patients who died in hospital following an admission with acute heart failure.
• Xanthakis V (2016) Prevalence, neurohormonal correlates, and prognosis of heart failure stages in the community. JACC Heart Failure; 4: 10, 808-815.

Resources:

• British Society for Heart Failure (2021) Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Competency Framework. BSH Nurse Forum.
• Marie Curie (2017) Better palliative and end of life care for patients with advanced heart failure: The Caring Together programme summary report
• Millerick Y (2022) Cardiac Supportive Palliative Care Guidance (CS-PCG): professional resource (Available from the British Society for Heart Failure)
• Millerick Y (2022) What matters to you? Meaningful conversation plan. (Available from the British Society for Heart Failure)
• Pumping Marvellous Foundation (2022) Supportive palliative care in heart failure: what may matter to you