The Last Beat (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino UnidoCitiRetail
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Paperback. "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 backWhat the "death rattle" really is, why it is not drowning, and why more IV fluid usually makes it worseTerminal lucidity: the sudden final rally, what we know and honestly don't, and how to use the windowWhy turning off an implanted defibrillator is not ending a life - and why that conversation must happen earlyThe many roads to a stopped heart: inherited electrical faults, cardiomyopathies, electrolyte catastrophes, and the deaths that stay unexplainedCardiac arrest versus heart attack - two words used interchangeably for entirely different emergenciesHow death is actually determined, by the heart and by the brain, and how organ donation really worksWhat 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …
N° de ref. del artículo 9798170481842
- Título
- The Last Beat (Paperback)
- Autor
- Dr Bishnu Subedi Facc
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798170481842
"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 behind
Fourteen 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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