Using a practical, question-and-answer approach, Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine, 2nd Edition, helps you provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. This unique reference focuses on patient and family/caregiver-centered care, highlighting the benefits of palliative care and best practices for delivery. The highly practical, user-friendly format sets it apart from other texts in the field, with concise, readable chapters organized around clinical questions that you're most likely to encounter in everyday care.
- Uniquely organized using a question-and-answer approach, making it easy to find answers to common questions asked by practitioners and patients.
- Up-to-date, reader-friendly chapters explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations and guidelines, communication techniques, and available resources for palliative care.
- Expanded discussions on hospice in every chapter, and a new emphasis on pediatrics, with increased material on pediatric malignancies, developmental delays, cystic fibrosis, and perinatal palliative care.
- New chapters on wellness of the palliative care practitioner, patients with opioid use disorders, telehealth in palliative care, health disparities, rural palliative care, caring for people with hematologic malignancies, integrative and alternative therapies, LGBTQ+ populations, mobile health technologies, and national palliative care implementation strategies.
- High-quality evidence gathered and reviewed by leading experts in palliative medicine, including clinicians, educators, and researchers across a broad range of disciplines.
- Numerous algorithms throughout help you make informed decisions, and "take-home" points in every chapter provide a quick summary of key content.
- Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.
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Elsevier HealthScience EN
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50 illustrations (50 in full color)
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978-0-323-84703-2 (9780323847032)
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Part I: Symptom Management Section A PAIN 1 How Should Opioids Be Started and Titrated? 2 What Principles Should Guide Opioid Dose Conversions? 3 How Is Patient-Controlled Analgesia Best Used to Control Pain? 4 Which Opioids Are Safest and Most Effective in Patients With Renal or Hapatic Failure? 5 How Should Mathadone Be Started and Titrated in Opioid-Naive and Opioid-Exposed Patients? 6 What Is Neuropathic Pain and How Is It Best Managed? 7 How Are Adjuvant Medications Such as Corticosteroids and NSAIDs Used for Pain Management? 8 What Are the Approaches to Pain in Skeletal Bone Disease? 9 When and How Should Radiotherapy Be Considered for Pain Management? 10 What Principles Should guide the Prescribing of Opioids for Noncancer Pain? 11 How Does the Opioid Epidemic Impact Palliative Medicine Practice? 12 How Does One Approach the Patient With an Opioid Use Disorder? 13 When Should Epidural or Intrathecal Medications and Pumps Be Considered for Pain Management? 14 When Should Nerve Blocks Be Used for Pain Management?
Section B DYSPNEA 15 What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in People With Cancer? 16 What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in COPD? 17 What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in Heart Failure? Section C GASTROINTESTINAL 18 What Medications Are Effective in Preventing and Relieving Constipation in the Setting of Opioid Use? 19 How Should Medications Be Initiated and Titrated to Reduce Acute and Delayed Nausea and Vomiting in the Setting of Chemotherapy? 20 How Should Medications Be Initiated and Titrated to Prevent and Treat Nausea and Vomiting in the Clinical Situations Unrelated to Chemotherapy? 21 What Interventions Are Effective for Relieving Acute Bowel Obstruction in Cancer and Other Conditions? Section D ANOREXIA/CACHEXIA/FEEDING DIFFICULTIES 22 What Therapies Are Effective in Improving Anorexia and Weight Loss in Cancer? 23 What Therapeutic Strategies Are Effective in Improving Anoerexia and Weight Loss in Nonmalignant Disease? 24 What Is the Role of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in Patients With Cancer and With Noncancer Illness? Section E PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS 25 What Treatments Are Effective for Depression in Palliative Care Settings? 26 How Are Anxiety and Fear Best Treated in Patients With Serious Illness and in Those Facing the End of Life? 27 What Is the Approach to the Patient Seeking a Hastened Death? Section F DELIRIUM 28 What Is Delirium and How Should It Be Managed? 29 What Are Effective Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatments for Delirium? 30 How Do Symptoms Change for Patients in the Last Days/Hours of Life? PART II: Communication 31 Prognosis in Palliative Care: Estimating Prognosis in Serious Illness and Communication Strategies 32 What Are the Key Elements to Having a Conversation About Communicating Serious News and Setting Goals? 33 What Are the Elements of Advance Care Planning and What Is the Evidence That Advance Care Planning Changes Patient Outcomes? 34 What Are the Special Communication Issues Involved in Caring for Pediatric Patients? Part III: Disease-Specific Topics Section A CANCER 35 What Is the Role for Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Solid-Tumor Malignancies? 36 What Is the Clinical Course of Advanced Solid-Tumor Cancers 37 What Is the Role for Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Hematologic Malignancies? 38 What Is the Clinical Course of Hematologic Malignancies? 39 What is the Role for Palliative Care in Children With Cancer? 40 What Is the Clinical Course of Pediatric Cancers? Section B DEMENTIA 41 What Is the Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia? 42 What Are Appropriate Palliative Interventions for Patients With Advanced Dementia? Section C ADVANCED LIVER DISEASE 43 What Are the Causes and Complications of Chronic Liver Disease and What Is the Evidence for Palliative Care Delivery to Those Affected by It? 44 What Do We Know About the Symptoms and Palliative Care Needs of People Affected
