Bereaved Caregiver Perspectives on the End-of-Life Experience of Patients With a Left Ventricular Assist Device | Zendy

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Bereaved Caregiver Perspectives on the End-of-Life Experience of Patients With a Left Ventricular Assist Device

Author(s) -

Colleen K. McIlvennan,

J. K. N. Jones,

Larry A. Allen,

Keith M. Swetz,

Carolyn T. Nowels,

Daniel D. Matlock

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

jama internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14

H-Index - 342

eISSN - 2168-6114

pISSN - 2168-6106

DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.8528

Subject(s) - medicine , end of life care , feeling , ventricular assist device , palliative care , confusion , advance care planning , heart failure , nursing , psychology , social psychology , psychoanalysis

For patients and their loved ones, decisions regarding the end of life in the setting of chronic progressive illness are among the most complex in health care. Complicating these decisions are increasingly available, invasive, and potentially life-prolonging technologies such as the left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

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