Surgical Palliative Care
Series: Supportive Care Series; 1;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 May 2004
- ISBN 9780198510000
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 270x172x20 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black and white photographs, tables and line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book provides detailed guidance for all palliative care specialists, surgeons and professions allied to medicine on the important part that surgery can play in palliation and support of all patients with many different diseases and problems. It also makes suggestions to surgeons about how to incorporate palliative care principles into sugical practice.
MoreLong description:
Surgical Palliative Care describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive to be useful in palliation and clinicians instinctively turn to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and other drugs. Surgery, with increasingly minimal access techniques, may be simpler and less invasive than other treatments and produces excellent palliation. Indeed, most types of surgery are not curative and the aim of this book is to alert all concerned with palliative care to the usefulness and appropriateness of a surgical option.
The text is divided into two sections; the first dealing with general issues, varying from quality of life measurement to spirituality, and the second illustrating their application in different specialties of surgery ranging from neurosurgery to urology. The book ends with a challenge to surgeons to change their perspective from curative surgery, in terms of simply cure or failure, to improvement in quality of life and relief of symptoms. Aimed primarily at palliative medicine and pain consultants, this book will also appeal to surgeons who increasingly need to know more about palliative care.
A comprehensive guide to the place of surgery and the surgeon in relation to palliative care. In particular, the chapters on psychological response and spirituality cover issues that are rarely touched on at any level on surgical training. However as a surgeon I found them highly relevant.
Table of Contents:
Introduction - is surgical palliative care a paradox?
Selection and preparation of patients for surgical palliation
The ethics of interventional care
The physiological response to surgical trauma
The psychological response to surgery
Spirituality and surgery
Interdisciplinary care
Quality of life issues in palliative surgery
Anaesthesia and peri-operative pain management
Symptom palliation of diseases of the head and neck (including dentistry)
The surgical relief of the symptomatic chest
Surgery for the control of symptoms in the abdomen
Symptom control in urological malignancy
Wound and reconstructive problems in advanced disease
Neurosurgical palliation
The role of the ophthalmologist in advanced disease
Perspectives from the developing world and diverse societies
Epilogue: a message to all surgeons
