Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 22. September 2011
505 Seiten
978-0-19-970168-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Led by the world-renowned Eduardo Bruera, the handbook is a source of information on the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care.
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Definitions and key elements in palliative care
- 2 Symptom assessment
- 3 Clinical decision making
- 4 Pain assessment and management
- 5 Fatigue
- 6 Cachexia
- 7 Dehydration
- 8 Anxiety and depression
- 9 Sleep disturbance
- 10 Chronic nausea and vomiting
- 11 Constipation and bowel obstruction
- 12 Delirium
- 13 Clinical issues related to palliative sedation
- 14 Dyspnea
- 15 Emergencies in palliative care
- 16 Other symptoms: xerostomia, hiccups, pruritis, pressure ulcers and wound care, lymphedema, and myoclonus
- 17 Management of cancer treatment-related adverse effects
- 18 Radiotherapy and palliative care
- 19 Hospice approach to palliative care, including Medicare hospice benefit
- 20 Psychosocial and cultural considerations in palliative care
- 21 Spiritual issues in palliative care
- 22 The palliative care team
- 23 Family conference: role in palliative care
- 24 Ethical aspects of palliative medicine
- 25 Prognostication in palliative care
- 26 Frequent pharmacological interactions in palliative care
- 27 Pediatric palliative care
- 28 Palliation in the care of older adults
- 29 Palliative care in end-stage heart failure
- 30 Palliative care in end-stage liver disease
- 31 Renal palliative care
- 32 Palliative care in patients with AIDS
- 33 Palliative care in end-stage neurological disease
- 34 Palliative care in end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- 35 Palliative care in the intensive care unit (ICU)
- 36 Research in terminally ill patients
- 37 Prevention and management: burnout in health-care providers
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