Paediatric Oncology: Acute Nursing Care / Edition 1

by Faith Gibson, Margaret Evans

Overview

The book addresses four modalities of treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant. Each of the four sections looks at specific areas including symptom management, complications, and late effects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861560476
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/15/2006
Pages:	614
Product dimensions:	7.87(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Faith Gibson is Senior Lecturer in Children's Nursing Research, Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital and King's College London.

Table of Contents

Chemotherapy: Principles

Administration.

Side effects.

Future trends.

Bone Marrow Transplant: Historical perspective.

Transplant as a treament modality.

Complications.

Preparation of the child and family.

Future developments.

Surgery: General surgery.

Neurosurgery.

Bone cancers.

Radiotherapy: Nature of.

Administration.

Acute and subacute effects.

Role in palliation.

Late effects.

Editorial Reviews

A guide and course text for clinical nurses who are either in or thinking of entering the specialty, answering a dearth of purely practical texts in Britain and the US to complement the more theoretical texts that follow a more medical model. The arrangement is by modality: chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant, general surgery, and radiotherapy. Each section begins with a review of the principles or background, discusses patient care during various stages and procedures, and considers both short-term and long-term effects. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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