Palliative Care Oncology

serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the pain, symptoms and stress of a serious illness. Pain management specialists usually treat pain that does not result from complex, serious illness. Patients are considered to be in the terminal end stage of heart disease when they have a life expectancy of six months or less. Only a doctor can make a clinical determination of congestive heart failure life expectancy. Approximately 90% of heart failure patients die from cardiovascular causes. Fifty per cent die from progressive heart failure, and the remainder die suddenly from arrhythmias and ischaemic events.The ultimate goal of intervention is to shift the balance toward more deaths from non-cardiovascular causes.  

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