The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. The table of contents follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the educational and clinical information needs of students, residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners. Succinct, evidence-based,topically-focused content is supplemented by extensive tables, algorithms, and clinical pearls. This edition includes new sections on grief and bereavement, medical marijuana, and physician assisted suicide, and has been updated throughout to incorporate National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care ClinicalPractice Guidelines.
1. Definitions and Key Elements In Palliative and Supportive Care; 2. Symptom Assessment; 3. Clinical Decision Making; 4. Pain Assessment and Management; 5. Fatigue; 6. Cachexia; 7. Dehydration; 8. Anxiety and Depression; 9. Sleep Disturbance; 10. Chronic Nausea and Vomiting; 11. Constipation and Bowel Obstruction; 12. Delirium; 13. Clinical Issues Related to Palliative Sedation; 14. Breathlessness; 15. Emergencies in Palliative Care; 16. Other Symptoms: Xerostomia, Hiccups, Pruritis, Pressure Ulcers and Wound Care, Lymphedema, and Myoclonus; 17. Management of Cancer Treatment-Related Adverse Effects; 18. Radiotherapy and Palliative Care; 19. Hospice approach to Palliative Care; 20. Psychosocial and Cultural Consideration in Palliative Care; 21. Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care; 22. The Palliative Care Team; 23. Family Conference: Role in Palliative Care; 24. Ethical Aspects of Palliative Medicine; 25. Prognostication in Palliative Care; 26. Frequent Pharmalogical Interactions in Palliative Care; 27. Pediatric Palliative Care; 28. Palliative Care in Older Adults; 29. Palliative Care in End-Stage Heart Failure; 30. Palliative Care in End-Stage Liver Disease; 31. Renal Palliative Care; 32. Palliative Care in Patients with AIDS; 33. Palliative Care in End-Stage Neurological Disease; 34. Palliative Care in End-Stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; 35. Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); 36. Research in Terminally Ill Patients; 37. Prevention and Management, Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Health Care Providers;
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