Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible. Failure to address this aspect of care has serious consequences for patients, their families, clinicians and the use of health resources.Heart Failure: From Advanced Disease to Bereavement illustrates the complexity and importance of end of life care for patients with advanced heart failure.This book is a pocket reference for everyday use in the clinic, ward or home visit for all doctors, nurses and AHPs caring for people with advanced heart failure. It outlines the underlying pathophysiology of heart failure, summarises standard pharmacological and device therapy, and sets the context of the challenges resulting from an unpredictable course of disease. In easily digestible summaries, this book presents practical advice about how and when to integrate a palliative care approach alongside standard heart failure management, how to communicate honestly in the face of uncertainty, the rationalisation of medication and device therapies at the end of life, symptom control, care for the dying, and care after death.

Heart Failure: From Advanced Disease to Bereavement (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care)

Medical Books

Beattie, James

Hogg, Karen

Johnson, Miriam

Medicine

Oxford University Press

Lilith guitar styles: The guitarist's guide to music of the masters

Arts & Photography

Music

WORKSHOP ARTS

From 1960s folk to alternative rock of the 1990s, this new addition to the Guitar Styles series studies the sounds and techniques of many of today's top female singer-songwriters and some of the artists who've influenced them. With easy-to-play examples, a suggested listening list and much more, this is the perfect resource for learning the styles of some of today's hottest performers. 48 pages.

Guitar Styles -- Women in Rock: The Guitarist's Guide to Music of the Masters, Book & CD (The National Guitar Workshop's Guitar Styles Series)

Alfred Music

(Berklee Guide). Learn the ukulele! Berklee Basic Ukulele is an easy-to-follow, funintroduction to the ukulele--the perfect guide for the beginning ukulele enthusiast! The book begins with the basics of reading music notation (traditional notation, ukulele tablature, and chord diagrams), which can serve as a review or a handy primer for those with noprior reading experience. You will then learn a variety techniques for playing melodies, strumming chords, and accompanying yourself singing, with many tunes in a diversity of styles as examples. You will learn various rhythms and strum patterns, starting from very basic strumming and then slowly incorporating more complex right hand techniques, and learn to strum along with your favorite (ororiginal) songs. Each chord, strum pattern, and concept is coupled with exercises and songs to give you ample opportunities to absorb the material, with demonstration and play-along audio tracks. Includes: * How to hold the ukulele, play with healthy hand/body position, and produce a good tone. * The notes of the ukulele fingerboard. * The basics of music theory, which you will then use to help learn songs and develop an overall intuitive sense for how to play the ukulele. * Essential chords and chord strumming patterns for different styles. * Melodies and chordal accompaniment parts to songs such as "Aloha 'Oe," "Amazing Grace," "Bound for South Australia," "Hi'ilawe," "Hinei Ma Tov," "Londondeery Air," "Simple Gifts," "When the Saints Go Marching In," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?," and others!

Berklee Basic Ukulele - Book with Online Audio by Karen Hogg

Berklee Press

The questions that parents most often ask about breastfeeding, answered by three breastfeeding experts and the women they've counseled.

Breastfeeding Your Baby (National Childbirth Trust Guide)

Moody, Jane

Britten, Jane

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Balance

A fun and easy way to get started on the guitar. Students will enjoy learning as they move quickly through this book, which teaches everything you need to know for a solid foundation on the instrument. TAB and neck diagrams will make it easy to learn to read music on the guitar. Teaches basic guitar chords and how to strum songs. Students who have finished Guitar Made Easy will be ready to move on to any style of guitar.

Guitar Made Easy

Guitar Made Easy: Book & CD

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