Topics in Palliative Care, Volume 2
Series: Topics in Palliative Care Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 June 1998
- ISBN 9780195102451
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 240x154x22 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black & white photographs, tables and line illustrations 0
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Short description:
The second book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. The 4 topics covered in this volume are Neuropathic Pain, Cachexia/Anorexia, Asthenia, and Psychological Issues in the Caregiver. The contributors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from both clinical and research settings, and integrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable for palliative care specialists and hospice providers.
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The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, and spiritual - that contribute to suffering, undermine quality of life, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative Care is a fundamental part of clinical practice, the "parallel universe" to therapies directed at cure or prolongation of life. All clinicians who treat patients with chronic life-threatening diseases are ingaged in palliative care, continually attempting to manage complex symptomatology and functional disturbances.
The scientific foundation of palliative care is advancing, and similarly, methods are needed to highlight, for practitioners at the bedside, the findings of empirical research. TOPICS IN PALLIATIVE CARE has been designed to meet the need for enhanced communication in this field.
To highlight the diversity of concerns in palliative care, each volume of the TOPICS IN PALLIATIVE CARE Series is divided into sections that address a range of issues. Addressing aspects of symptom control, psychosocial functioning, spiritual or existential concerns, ethics, and other topics, the chapters in each section review the given area and focus on a small number of salient issues to analysis. The authors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from both the clinical and research settings, and intergrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable. The specific topics covered in Volume 2 are Neuropathic Pain, Cachexia/Anorexia, Asthenia, and Psychological Issues in the Caregiver.
Table of Contents:
I. Neuropathic Pain
Introduction: Neuropathic Pain: From Unresolved Questions to Clinical Practice
Neuropathic Cancer Pain: Syndromes and Clinical Controversies
Opioids in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
Adjuvant Drugs for Neuropathic Cancer Pain
Invasive Techniques for Neuropathic Pain
II. Cachexia/Anorexia
Introduction: Anoresia: An Evolving Understanding
Prevalence and Pathophysiology of Cancer Cachexia
The Pharmacological Manipulation of Appetite
Practical Considerations in the Management of Cachexia/Anorexia
Ethical Issues in Hydration and Nutrition
III. Asthenia
Introduction: Asthenia: Definitions and Dimensions
Pathophysiology of Cancer Asthenia
The Reversible Causes of Asthenia in Cancer Patients
IV. Psychological Issues in the Caregiver
Introduction: Defining the Unit of Treatment
Care of the Cancer Patient: Response of Family and Staff
Staff Burnout: Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention
Abnormal Bereavement: Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention
Conflict between Family and Staff: Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention
Quantum Theory and Measurement
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