Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

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This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the educational and clinical information needs of students, residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners. An expert team ...
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This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the educational and clinical information needs of students, residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners. An expert team of clinicians, led by world renowned Eduardo Bruera, address approach to care; psychosocial and spiritual issues; impending death; grief and bereavement; assessment and management of pain; management of non-pain symptoms such as nausea, dyspnea, depression, insomnia, and bleeding; communication and team work; and ethical and legal decision making.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195380156
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 8/16/2011
  • Series: Oxford American Handbooks in Medicine Series
  • Pages: 504
  • Sales rank: 330,356
  • Product dimensions: 7.30 (w) x 4.20 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

EB: Professor and Chair, Department of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TexasSY: Assistant Professor, Palliative Care & Rehabilitation Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

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Table of Contents

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
11. Constipation and Bowel Obstruction
12. Delirium
13. Palliative Sedation
14. Dyspnea/Breathlessness
15. Emergencies in Palliative Care
16. Other Symptoms including Xerostomia, Hiccups, Pruritis, Pressure Ulcers/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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