Quality of Life After Open Heart Surgery

ISBN-13: 9780792315803 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 528 str.

Paul J. Walter; P. J. Walter; Na Ette Na Ette K. Wenger

Opis

The technical evolution of cardiac surgery in the last decades has been rewarded with long-term survival with few complications. A matching improvement in the quality of this survival as subjectively felt by the patient has now become the most important to assess the justification of surgery.

Spis treści

Preface. Foreword. Part One: Quality of Life after Heart Valve Replacement. A. Physiological State. B. Intellectual Functioning. C. Emotional State. D. General Satisfaction. Part Two: Quality of Life after Coronary Bypass Surgery. A. Physiolocial State. B. Intellectual Functioning. C. Emotional State. D. Performance of Social Soles. E. Summary: Quality of Life after Coronary Bypass Surgery. Part Three: Quality of Life after Surgical Correction of Congenital Heart Disease. A. Physiological State. B. Intellectual Functioning. C. Emotional State. D. Performance of Social Roles. E. General Satisfaction. F. Summary: Quality of Life after Surgical Correction of Congenital Heart Disease. Part Four: Quality of Life after Heart Transplantation. A. Physiological State. B. Intellectual Functioning. C. Emotional State. D. Performance of Social Roles. E. General Satisfaction. F. Summary: Quality of Life after Heart Transplantation. Index.