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VIDEO: Palliative care increasing in prominence for management of patients with HF
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ORLANDO, Fla. — In this Cardiology Today video exclusive, Mary Norine Walsh, MD, FACC, medical director of HF and cardiac transplantation and director of nuclear cardiology at St. Vincent Heart Center, Indianapolis, discusses some of the late-breaking clinical trials presented at the Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Assembly.
“I really think that this year we're seeing that palliative care ... is becoming an increasingly important area of investigation for our patients, for our teams and also for our whole field of advanced HF care,” Walsh, president-elect of the American College of Cardiology, said.
Particularly interesting, she said, was that in one palliative-care trial, a social worker delivered some of the interventions.
Walsh also said the LAPTOP-HF trial, which showed patients adjusting their own medications based on information they were given, represents an “exciting area of future exploration.”