An overview of end-of-life issues in a cardiology department.Is the mode of death worse in the cardiac intensive care unit?

• 来源期刊: 老年心脏病学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（6）
• 页码范围: 482-489
• 页数: 8页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2019.06.010

摘要

1 Introduction Cardiovascular (CV) diseases are the most commoncauses of death and causes frequent hospital admissions.[1] The increase in life expectancy and the appearance of new treatments,[2] is changing in the clinical profile of CV disease,with a rise in chronic processes and concomitant comorbidities.[3] These changes are probably reflected in the current profile of patients admitted to cardiology departments,and in their causes of mortality.