Introducing palliative care
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Introducing palliative care
Radcliffe Medical Press, c1995
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References: p. [167]-170
Includes Index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This concise but comprehensive text provides those new to palliative care with an overview of the many aspects of their work. It is based on lecture notes which have been used by clinical students and nurses at Oxford and elsewhere, and is now available for a wider readership.
Table of Contents
- Fatal statistics
- palliative care
- a typical hospice
- dying at home
- ethics in palliative care
- hope
- communication
- breaking bad news
- strategies for coping with uncertainty
- psychological aspects of terminal illness
- care of the relatives
- spiritual care
- religious and cultural needs
- children and bereavement
- bereavement
- general principles
- pain
- pain in advanced cancer
- pain management
- nonopoids
- weak opoids
- strong opoids
- neuropathic pain
- useful definitions
- alimentary syptoms
- respiratory symptoms
- urinary symptoms
- other symptoms
- organic mental disorders
- drug profiles
- when all's said and done
- professional carers have needs too.
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