Introducing Palliative Care (IPC5) is the ideal introductory text for training students in medicine and qualified healthcare professionals in the area of palliative care. The fifth edition covers the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Irelands recommended curriculum for medical undergraduates. It has much expanded sections on ethics, the law, children, symptom management and contains The Essential Palliative Care Formulary. Although medically oriented, there is much of use to undergraduates and graduates of other disciplines. The clinical focus is on advanced cancer but the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other incurable progressive life-threatening conditions.
Contents Preface IPC and beyond Abbreviations Part 1 1.Scope of palliative care 2.Ethical aspects 3.Communication 4.Psychological aspects 5.Spiritual aspects 6.Bereavement Part 2 7.Symptom management: principles and pain 8.Symptom management: alimentary 9.Symptom management: respiratory 10.Symptom management: genito-urinary 11.Symptom management: psychological & neurological 12.Symptom management: other 13.Emergencies 14.End-of-life care: planning and last days of life Part 3 15.Children: general aspects 16.Children: symptom management 17.Children: bereavement Part 4 18.The Essential Palliative Care Formulary 1. Curriculum for under-graduate medical education 2. Certifying death 3. Essential drugs Indexes Drugs Topics
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