The Last Beat : How the Heart Fades at the End of Life

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Neuware - 'The lines are getting bigger. Is her heart getting stronger 'It is one of the most common questions a family asks at a bedside, and the answer is the opposite of what it looks like.In The Last Beat, board-certified cardiologist Bishnu Subedi, MD, FACC explains what actually happens to the heart in the final hours of life - in the same plain language he uses with families in the room. The book is built around the two things families are actually looking at: the shapes on the monitor, and the sounds in the air.Because the hardest part of a final vigil is often not the loss itself. It is spending the last night of someone's life staring at a screen you cannot read, translating every change on it into a fear that they are in pain - when they are not, and when the only thing standing between you and a peaceful last night together was a two-minute explanation nobody thought to give.This book is that explanation.Inside: - Why a slowing, widening rhythm is the wiring shutting down - not a heart fighting back- What the 'death rattle' really is, why it is not drowning, and why more IV fluid usually makes it worse- Terminal lucidity: the sudden final rally, what we know and honestly don't, and how to use the window- Why turning off an implanted defibrillator is not ending a life - and why that conversation must happen early- The many roads to a stopped heart: inherited electrical faults, cardiomyopathies, electrolyte catastrophes, and the deaths that stay unexplained- Cardiac arrest versus heart attack - two words used interchangeably for entirely different emergencies- How death is actually determined, by the heart and by the brain, and how organ donation really works- What acute grief does to the heart of the person left behindFourteen chapters, eleven appendices, and twenty-six diagrams, anatomical illustrations, and ECG tracings prepared for this book. Plus one-page quick-reference cards designed to be photocopied and kept at a bedside, a 112-question FAQ, a glossary, a symptom log, a fully referenced source list, and a page of questions worth asking your care team.Written for anyone who wants to understand what happens to the heart in the last minutes - for patients and families at a bedside tonight, and for the nurses, chaplains, hospice aides, and physicians standing beside them.Note: This book is educational and is not a substitute for medical advice from your own clinicians. All patients described are composites; no individual can be identified. …

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Título
The Last Beat : How the Heart Fades at the End of Life
Autor
Bishnu Subedi Facc
Editorial
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Aug 2026
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
Neu
Encuadernación
Taschenbuch
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798170481842
Peso del artículo
259 gramos
Dimensiones
229x152x13 mm

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