The foremost and greatest barrier to end-stage heart failure treatment: the impact of caregiver shortage

• Published in: Journal of artificial organs Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 192 - 197
• Main Authors: Saito, Shunsuke, Yoshioka, Daisuke, Kawamura, Takuji, Kawamura, Ai, Misumi, Yusuke, Akazawa, Yasuhiro, Sera, Fusako, Kubota, Kaori, Yamauchi, Takashi, Sakata, Yasushi, Miyagawa, Shigeru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 01.06.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Cardiac Surgery; Caregivers; Caregivers - supply & distribution; Congestive heart failure; Diabetes mellitus; Dialysis; Drinking behavior; Failure; Female; Health services; Heart failure; Heart Failure - therapy; Heart transplantation; Heart Transplantation - statistics & numerical data; Heart-Assist Devices; Hospitals; Humans; Japan; Male; Malignancy; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Nephrology; Original; Original Article; Patients; Retrospective Studies; Social conditions; Therapy; Japan; Left ventricular assist device; Home therapy; Heart transplantation; Caregiver

We examined the number of patients abandoning cardiac replacement therapy due to the inability to secure a designated caregiver. At Osaka University Hospital Heart Center, when we receive a consultation for a patient with severe heart failure from another hospital, a heart failure team makes a visit...