Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care

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ISBN: 9780199329755

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Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests,monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality oflife while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories:: pulmonary, cardiovascular, nephrologic and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric. This evidence-based resource is ideal for educating clinicians delivering palliative care to cancer patients in acute care facilities about complex internalmedicine problems, decision-making regarding diagnostics and therapeutics which require a good understanding of state-of-the-art internal medicine and palliative care principles.

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Brand OUP USA

Reference 87397

EAN13 9780199329755

ISBN 9780199329755

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Publication date: 2014
Issue number: 1
Cover: paperback
Pages count: 256
Dimensions (mm): 127 x 203
Weight (g): 310

1. Introduction; 1.1. Principles of Internal Medicine in Palliative Care; 1.2. Principles of Prognostication; 1.3. Principles of advance care planning; 2. Pulmonary; 2.1. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; 2.2. Pleural Effusion; 2.3. Pulmonary Embolism; 2.4. Non-invasive ventilation; 3. Cardiovascular; 3.1. Heart Failure; 3.2. Acute Coronary Syndrome; 3.3. Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade; 3.4. Arrhythmias; 3.5. Arterial Hypertension; 3.6. Dyslipidemia; 4. Nephrology and Metabolic Abnormalities; 4.1. Chronic Kidney Disease & Acute Kidney Injury; 4.2. Urinary Incontinence; 4.3. Urinary Retention; 4.4. Hematuria; 4.5. Metabolic acidosis; 4.6. Electrolyte abnormalities (Na, K, Mg); 4.7. Hypercalcemia; 5. Gastrointestinal; 5.1. Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding; 5.2. Acute and Chronic Diarrhea; 5.3. Bowel Obstruction; 5.4. Liver Failure and Hepatitis; 5.5. Biliary Obstruction; 5.6. Pancreatitis; 6. Hematological Disorders; 6.1. Anemia; 6.2. Neutropenia; 6.3. Thrombocytopenia; 6.4. Bleeding Disorders; 6.5. Deep Vein Thrombosis; 7. Infections; 7.1. Sepsis; 7.2. Pneumonia; 7.3. Urinary Tract Infections; 7.4. Osteomyelitis; 7.5. Skin Infections; 7.6. Herpes Infections; 7.7. Fungal Infections; 8. Endocrine; 8.1. Diabetes; 8.2. Hyperthyroidism; 8.3. Hypothyroidism; 9. Rheumatology; 9.1. Arthritis; 10. Neuro-psychiatric; 10.1. Acute Stroke Syndrome; 10.2. Seizures; 10.3. Syncope; 10.4. Migraines; 10.5. Dementia; 10.6. Vitamin B12 deficiency; 10.7. Parkinsons Disease;