• BC's Heart Failure Network
• For BC Healthcare Providers
• End of Life Tools

End of Life Tools

ipall (Palliative Care Assessment tool)

Patients Advanced Personal Action Plan

The resource is to be filled out by the patient and family and is intended to be a communication tool that outlines how the patient wants to be cared for. It also outlines the patient’s personal journey with specific information on what in important to them, what treatment has or has not worked for them etc. It is the responsibility of the health care provider to review the advanced personal action plan with their patient, so they are aware how the patient wants to be cared for.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Heart Failure Symptom Management

Anorexia/Cachexia

Dyspnea

Dyspnea (628) 

Edema/Ascites

Fatigue

Fatigue (320)

Nausea/Vomiting

Pain

Reference List for the Symptom Management Guidelines

 Appropriate Prescribing Clinical Practice Guideline

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Deactivation Clinical Practice Guideline

Planned Process

Referral for ICD deactivation,

Consent form for ICD deactivation,

Pre printed order set for ICD deactivation

Unplanned Process

Algorithm for unplanned ICD deactivation

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Health Care Professional Information Sheet

Workshop presentation from the Vancouver 2014 Cardiovascular Congress Conference