Topics in Palliative Care, Volume 1

Authors:

Brand: OUP USA

ISBN: 9780195102444

273.99 zł

260.29 zł Save 13.70 zł Tax included

Lowest price within 30 days before promotion: 260.29 zł

Quantity

Product unavailable

Out of print

Notify me about new stock Enter your email address to get notifications about new stock of this product

Delivery policy

Choose Paczkomat Inpost, Orlen Paczka, DPD or Poczta Polska. Click for more details

Security policy

Pay with a quick bank transfer, payment card or cash on delivery. Click for more details

Return policy

If you are a consumer, you can return the goods within 14 days. Click for more details

Description

Palliative care, which focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and otherwise undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders, is a clinical specialty that is just beginning to define itself in the United States. This first volume in the Topics in Palliative Care series will discuss palliative care topics, such as pharmacotherapy of pain, adjustments to cancer, management of delirium, and gastrointestinaldisorders.

Product Details

Brand OUP USA

Reference 83950

EAN13 9780195102444

ISBN 9780195102444

Data sheet

Publication date: 1997
Issue number: 1
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 328
Dimensions (mm): 164 x 243
Weight (g): 630

Part I:: Delirium in Cancer Patients; Introduction:: critical issues in delirium; Epidemiology and clinical features of delirium; Assessment and management of reversible delirium; Counselling the confused patient and the family; Part II:: Gastrointestinal Disorders in Patients with Advanced Cancer; Introduction:: a call for research to elucidate causes, assessment, and management of common gastrointestinal symptoms; Gastrointestinal motility disorders in advanced cancer; Assessment and management of opioid-induced constipation; Assessment and management of mechanical bowel obstruction; Part III:: Advances in the Pharmacotherapy of Pain; Introduction:: what might the future hold for opioid pharmacotherapy?; Pharmacology of opioid drugs:: basic principles; Clinical implications of morphine metabolites; The emerging role of the Fenranyl series in chronic cancer pain; Intraindividual variability in opioid response:: a role for sequential opioid trials in patient care; Part IV:: Normal Adjustments to Cancer; Introduction:: psychpathology in patients with progressive medical disorders:: where does normal end?; Normal adjustment to cancer:: characteristics and assessment; The family as a unit of treatment; Denial, misinformation, and the assault of truth; Clinical response to spiritual insult;