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Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care Max Watson

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care By Max Watson

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care by Max Watson

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Based on the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, this book covers similar topics in a concise format for professionals who need key information for their daily care of patients. It offers advice on managing symptoms, with information on the key physical, emotional and spiritual issues often encountered in patients with terminal illness.

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care Summary

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care by Max Watson

The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care covers all aspects of palliative care in a concise and succinct format suited to busy professionals who need to access key information in their daily care of patients. This practical guide covers briefly the historical and epidemiological background of palliative care, and the growth of palliative medicine as a specialty, before dealing with major physical, psychological and spiritual, and symptom management issues from diagnosis to bereavement care. In addition to the adult chapters, the handbook includes an extensive paediatric section. The oncology section outlines the treatment regimes of the common cancers and details the chemotherapeutic agents, including their side effects. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care will prove invaluable for specialist doctors, nurses and professionals allied to medicine who are involved in the day-to-day care of adults, children and families with palliative care needs.

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is a concise and well-organized reference text for both palliative care clinicians and other clinicians...The introduction provides a solid foundation from which the rest of the text is built...succinct and pocket-sized...[with] useful information for experienced palliative care clinicians...a valuable resource...to anyone who participates in providing palliative care...As the population continues to age and the number of people with life-limiting or life-threatening illness increases, there will be a greater need for all clinicians to provide skilled and competent palliative care. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is an excellent reference guide that can assist them in providing such care. Respiratory Care Vol. 51 No. 4 Practical and compact, the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (OHPC) addresses most, if not all of the issues one would expect and desire. ...The OHCP is a wonderful book. It can be used as a reference book, an aide memoire or a revision aid equally well and I see it as an invaluable tool for anyone involved in providing palliative care, not just for those who specialise in this field. Hospice Information Bulletin This little book is packed with practical information ... It will be of use to any health care professionals who deal with palliative care patients and their families; this applies both to people who work in palliative care and to those who only occasionally run into a palliative care patient, for whom it can be recommended as a comprehensive practical guide that is relatively inexpensive. IAHPC Website

Table of Contents

1. Ethical issues; 2. Breaking bad news; 3. Research in palliative care; 4. Principles of drug use in palliative medicine; 5. Oncology and palliative care; 6. Symptom management; 6.1 The management of pain; 6.2 Gastro-intestinal symptoms; 6.3 Cachexia, anorexia and fatigue; 6.4 Sweating and fever; 6.5 Respiratory symptoms; 6.6 Skin problems in palliative care; 6.7 Genito-urinary problems; 6.8 Palliation of head and neck cancer; 6.9 Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer; 6.10 Neurological problems in advanced cancer; 6.11 Sleep disorders; 6.12 Haematological aspects; 6.13 Psychiatric symptoms in palliative medicine; 7. Paediatric palliative care; 8. Palliative care in non-malignant disease; 8.1 AIDS in adults; 8.2 Palliative care in non-malignant respiratory disease; 8.3 Palliative care in heart failure; 8.4 Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease; 8.5 Palliation in the care of the elderly; 9. Spiritual care; 10. The contribution to palliative care by associated health professionals; 10.1 Rehabilitation; 10.2 Occupational therapy; 10.3 Dietetics and nutrition; 10.4 Physiotherapy; 10.5 Speech and language therapy; 10.6 Clinical psychology; 10.7 Social work; 10.8 The chaplain; 11. Complementary therapies in palliative care; 12. Palliative care in the home; 13. The terminal phase; 14. Bereavement; 15. Emergencies in palliative care; 16. Miscellaneous

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GOR005201331
9780198508977
0198508972
Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care by Max Watson
Max Watson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
20050601
852
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