Palliativpflege und Medizin

Abstrakt

Palliative Care for Patients with Heart Failure and COVID-19 in the Pandemic of COVID-19

Satomi Konno, Takuya Kishi

In these two years, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has come to be a global pandemic. Patients with COVID-19 often require clinical isolation for preventing the spread of infection, and clinical isolation often prevents the patients and the family to be with their loved ones when they die. Moreover, patients with heart failure are affected by COVID-19, resulting in increased mortality with a heavy burden on medical staff and healthcare resources. In this decade, palliative care has already been standard therapy for heart failure. Considering these backgrounds, palliative care should be provided to patients with heart failure and COVID-19 in the pandemic of COVID-19. Although there is no evidence showing the clinical and social benefits of palliative care for patients with heart failure and COVID-19, we summarized what is needed to provide optimal palliative and end-of-life care for patients with heart failure and COVID-19 complications in this COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 era.