Topics in Palliative Care, Volume 5
Series: Topics in Palliative Care; 5;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 April 2001
- ISBN 9780195132205
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 152x226x22 mm
- Weight 706 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black & white photgraphs, tables and line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This is the fifth book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. This rapidly evolving field focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life patients with incurable medical disorders. To highlight the diversity in this field, each volume is divided into sections that address a range of issues. Various sections discuss aspects of symptom control, psychosocial functioning, spiritual or existential concerns, ethics, and other topics. The 6 sections in this volume are Cultural Issues in Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Geriatrics, Communication Issues in Palliative Care, Outcomes Research in Palliative Care, Opiod Tolerance:; Reality or Myth?, and Pain and other Symptoms: Treatment Challenges. The authors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from both the clinic and research, and integrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable.
MoreLong description:
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 the 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 engaged 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 practioners at the bedside, the findings of empirical research. Topics in Palliative Care Series is divided into sections that address a range of issues. Addressing aspects of sumptom control, psyshocsoical 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 for analysis. The authors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from clinical and research settings, and integrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable. The specific topics covered in Volume 5 are Cultural issues in Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Geriatrics, Communication Issues in Palliative Care, Outcomes Research in Palliative Care, Opiod Tolerance; Reality of Myth?, and Pain and other symptoms: Treatment Challenges.
In summary this book provides a wealth of valuable information on some extremely important topics in palliative care. Without exception the chapters manage to inform and stimulate the reader and are applicable to palliative care in a wide variety of settings. The editors have produced a superb user-friendly book that deserves a place in every palliative care library and should be recommended to all palliative care clinicians.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Cultural Issues in Palliative Care
Models for the Delivery of Palliative Care: The Canadian Model
Models for the Delivery of Palliative Care: The Spanish Model
Models for the Delivery of Palliative Care in Developing Countries
Section II: Palliative Care in Geriatrics
Palliative Care and Geriatrics: Is a Special Model of Care Needed?
Truth Telling in Cancer Care: The Japanese Perspective
Advance Directives in Different Cultures
Assessment of Symptoms in the Cognitively Impaired
Section IV: Outcomes Research in Palliative Care
Quality of Life as an Outcome in Palliative Care: What Is It and How Do We Measure It?
Economic Outcomes and Palliative Care
Symptom Assessment Outcomes in Home-Based Palliative Care
Section V: Opioid Tolerance: Reality or Myth?
Opioid Tolerance: Clinical Perspective
Problems with Opioid Dose Escalation in Cancer Pain: Differential Diagnosis and Management Strategies
Section VI: Pain and Other Symptomes: Treatment Challenges
Dose Ratios Among Different Opioids: Underlying Issues and an Update on the Use of the Equianalgesic Table
Intraspinal Pain Therapy in Palliative Care
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Delirium in the Terminally Ill
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