Oxford handbook of palliative care
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Oxford handbook of palliative care
Oxford University Press, c2005
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Handbook of palliative care
Palliative care
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Prefectural University of Hiroshima Library and Academic Information Center
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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