My Account
Log in Registration
All
Cart
Highlights
Fiction Books
Non-Fiction Books
Children's Books
Rare Books
Music
DVD & Blu-Ray
Video Games
Category
Wishlists
Cart
All
Free Shipping in Australia
Trustpilot
Proud to be B-Corp

Kidney Disease Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)

Kidney Disease By Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)

Kidney Disease by Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)

Reviews:
$13.49
Condition - Very Good
Out of stock
Very Good

Summary

This book provides practical guidance on managing renal patients at the end of life stage. It is presented in easily accessible, bullet point style, and is illustrated with case histories from real life patients, and drug tables.

Kidney Disease Summary

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement by Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life. The book describes the tools used to achieve a good death including advance care planning, symptom control law and ethics, recognizing dying, withdrawal of treatment, and a holistic approach to patient care. By using case histories, the book highlights how to facilitate good communication between patients, families and their renal and palliative teams. There are also chapters on support for carers and bereavement. Revised and updated, this new edition is written in a bullet point style to provide an indispensable guide to the day-to-day management of patient care. This pocketbook will be an essential guide for nephrologists, renal nurses, nephrologist trainees, and doctors and nurses working in palliative care.

Kidney Disease Reviews

This is a compact but detailed guide on palliative care and treatment of renal failure in the terminal stage. The book will be very helpful for doctors and nurses. * Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association *
I was impressed by this expanded and updated second edition from OUP's Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care series. Tightly written in bullet-point form, there is a wealth of information here. Besides the basic nephrology and the co-morbidities, there are chapters on the treatment of pain and other symptoms and another on modifying drug doses in chronic renal failure. But what I really liked were the chapters on communication (including listening), recognising dying, how to deliver good palliative care, ethical considerations, spirituality, as well as bereavement. There is an integrated care pathway for end of life care, modified for the management of patients with end-stage renal failure * IAHPC Newsletter, April 2013 *
This book is an excellent handbook on a complex group of patients. It gives guidance to renal and palliative specialists who care for patients with advanced kidney disease. In the end stages of the disease this would be a good tool to utilize alongside the Liverpool Care Pathway. * Nursing Times, May 2013 *

About Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)

Edwina Brown is a clinical nephrologist with a special interest in patient outcomes, particularly the elderly, on dialysis. Over the last decade she has developed an increasing interest in the support and management of renal patients at their end of life. She was an editor of Supportive Care for the Renal Patient, first published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and with a second edition in 2010, has published and lectured extensively on the topic and runs an annual course on Supportive Care for the Renal Patient. She is currently a member of the UK End of Life Care for Advanced Kidney Care Disease Project Board. Fliss qualified in medicine in the UK in 1986. She initially trained in General Practice, and worked as a General Practitioner from 1992 - 2000, then undertook specialist training in palliative medicine between 2000 and 2004. She went on to undertake a PhD at King's College London, on 'Improving the quality of care of patients with Stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease managed without dialysis' in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation at King's College London. She has now gained a HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturership - one of the first nationally in Palliative Care. She is based at King's College London and King's College Hospital. She has published on the palliative and end of life care needs of renal patients, including on symptoms, withdrawal from dialysis, survival, and use of opioids. Fliss has a keen interest in longitudinal study, including methodological development, and symptom and functional trajectories in the last year of life (including for renal patients).

Table of Contents

1. End-stage kidney disease ; 2. Comorbidity ; 3. Complications of end-stage kidney disease ; 4. Causes of death in end-stage kidney disease ; 5. Health-related quality of life in end-stage kidney disease ; 6. Symptom assessment and trajectories ; 7. The management of pain ; 8. Non-pain symptoms in end-stage kidney disease ; 9. How to deliver best supportive and palliative care ; 10. Recognizing dying ; 11. Communicating with patients and families ; 12. Ethical and legal considerations ; 13. Management of the last few days ; 14. Spiritual and religious care ; 15. Caring for the carers ; 16. Drug doses in advanced chronic kidney disease ; 17. Audit and research in renal end of life care

Additional information

GOR007575920
9780199695690
0199695695
Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement by Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)
Edwina A. Brown (Consultant Nephrologist, Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)
Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20120503
400
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Kidney Disease