Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards is a comprehensive, evidence-based book of flashcards for clinicians caring for patients who require hospice and palliative care and supportive care. Written in a clinical scenario/vignette, question and answer format by experts with first-hand experience in the field, the flashcards are highly readable and serve as a source of fast answers to clinical questions in the field. A total of 300 flashcards areorganized into chapters by symptom/disease and provide readers with up-to-date information that follow the core curriculum of American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for ease of use and rapid review for exams. This book will equip care professionals with key concepts related to the assessment andmanagement of palliative care, making it an ideal point-of-care quick reference material for physicians, nurse practitioners, fellows, residents, and students.
Chapter 1: Principles of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 2: Symptom Assessment; Marvin Omar Delgado Guay; Chapter 3: Clinical Decision Making in Palliative Care; Eduardo Bruera; Chapter 4: Principles of Assessment and Pain Management and Procedures in Pain Management; Francisco A. Loaiciga and Suresh Reddy; Chapter 5: Adjuvant Drugs in Pain Management; David R. Eidelson and Larry C. Driver; Chapter 6: Cancer Related Fatigue; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 7: Anorexia/Cachexia syndrome and Hydration; Egidio G. Del Fabbro; Chapter 8: Management of Psychological Symptoms including Anxiety and Depression; Marvin Omar Delgado Guay; Chapter 9: Sleep Disturbance in Palliative Care; Rebecca Burke and Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 10: Nausea and Vomiting; Shalini Dalal; Chapter 11: Delirium; Shirley H. Bush and Valerie Gratton; Chapter 12: Dyspnea; Praveen Vijhani, Farah Kazzaz, Saadia A. Faiz, and Diwakar D. Balachandran; Chapter 13: Constipation and Bowel Obstruction; Marieberta Vidal; Chapter 14: Palliative Care Emergencies; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 15: Other Symptoms: Xerostomia, Hiccups, Pruritus, Pressure Ulcers and Wound Care, Lymphedema, and Myoclonus; Paul W. Walker; Chapter 16: Frequent Pharmacological Interactions in Palliative care; Mary Lynn McPherson, Kelly Mendoza, and Jessica Geiger-Hayes; Chapter 17: Hospice Approach to Palliative Care: Medicare Hospice Benefit; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 18: Cultural Issues in Palliative Care; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 19: Psychosocial and Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care; Marvin Omar Delgado Guay and Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 20: Palliative Care in the Last Hours of Life; Ahsan Azhar; Chapter 21: Palliative Sedation; Paul W. Walker; Chapter 22: Grief and Bereavement; Rony Dev; Chapter 23: Communication and Team Work; Eduardo Bruera; Chapter 24: Family Conference in Palliative care; Margaret L. Isaac MD and J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH; Chapter 25: Caregiver-Related Concerns; Kathrin Milbury; Chapter 26: Ethical and Legal Decision Making; Donna S. Zhukovsky, Colleen M. Gallagher, and Francis Baker; Chapter 27: Prognosis; Rossi Romina, Scarpi Emanuela, and Maltoni Marco; Chapter 28: Challenging Conversations in Palliative Care; Kimberson Cochien Tanco and Daniel Epner; Chapter 29: Pediatric Palliative Care; Kevin Madden; Chapter 30: Geriatric Issues in Palliative Care; Marvin Omar Delgado Guay and Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 31: Palliative Care in Long Term Care Settings; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 32: Palliative care in end-stage heart failure; Linh My Thi Nguyen; Chapter 33: Palliative care in end-stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Linh My Thi Nguyen; Chapter 34: Palliative care in end-stage liver disease; Linh My Thi Nguyen; Chapter 35: Palliative care in end-stage renal disease; Linh My Thi Nguyen; Chapter 36: Palliative Care in End-Stage Neurological Disease; Tobias Walbert and Joel Phillips; Chapter 37: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Palliative Care; John Weru; Chapter 38: Burnout in Palliative Care; Regina M. Mackey and Suresh Reddy; Chapter 39: Research in Terminally Ill Patients; Sriram Yennurajalingam; Chapter 40: Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Margaret L. Isaac and J. Randall Curtis;
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