This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
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* Perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life
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This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life
* Guidance on timing: when is end-of-life care needed?
* Breaking bad news: how to inform the patient
* Useful, current, guidelines on the treatment of pain, dyspnea, skin and mucus membrane problems, gastrointestinal conditions, and other common symptoms near the end of life
* In-depth discussion of end-of-life controversies, including advance directives and resuscitation, nutritional support and parenteral hydration, and physician-assisted suicide
* How to assess quality of life near its end
* Practical help with end-of-life care for special groups, such as HIV and pediatric patients
* Guidance on bereavement, depression, and other psychosocial and spiritual issues at the end of life
* Suggestions on benefiting from interdisciplinary teamwork
* What every clinician needs to know about the last days of the actively dying
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One of the major problems that physicians must address as they plan care for their patients near the end of life is to determine when, based upon a prediction of the patient's prognosis, such care should be initiated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managed care medical director, hospice team physician, total sedation, palliative care providers, terminal agitation, hospice interdisciplinary team, hospice medical director, noncancer diagnoses, palliative care programs, hospice benefit, parenteral hydration, artificial nutritional support, nebulized morphine, malignant dysphagia, opioid rotation, facility medical director, symptoms near, neuropathie pain, short prognosis, gastrointestinal intubation, hospice physician, overall clinical condition, symptom palliation, tid prn, advance directive instructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Oxford University Press, Pain Symptom Manage, Palliat Care, Ann Intern Med, Special Groups, Clinical Oncology, Churchill Livingstone, Vitas Healthcare, Arch Intern Med, Geriatr Soc, Clin Oncol, Selected Non-cancer Diseases, Break Bad News, Dermatologic Problems, Dignity Act, Hospice Education Institute, Outcomes Taskforce, Semin Oncol, American Pain Society, Gastrointest Endosc, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, Palliat Med, Johns Hopkins University Press New!
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One of the major problems that physicians must address as they plan care for their patients near the end of life is to determine when, based upon a prediction of the patient's prognosis, such care should be initiated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managed care medical director, hospice team physician, total sedation, palliative care providers, terminal agitation, hospice interdisciplinary team, hospice medical director, noncancer diagnoses, palliative care programs, hospice benefit, parenteral hydration, artificial nutritional support, nebulized morphine, malignant dysphagia, opioid rotation, facility medical director, symptoms near, neuropathie pain, short prognosis, gastrointestinal intubation, hospice physician, overall clinical condition, symptom palliation, tid prn, advance directive instructions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Oxford University Press, Pain Symptom Manage, Palliat Care, Ann Intern Med, Special Groups, Clinical Oncology, Churchill Livingstone, Vitas Healthcare, Arch Intern Med, Geriatr Soc, Clin Oncol, Selected Non-cancer Diseases, Break Bad News, Dermatologic Problems, Dignity Act, Hospice Education Institute, Outcomes Taskforce, Semin Oncol, American Pain Society, Gastrointest Endosc, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, Palliat Med, Johns Hopkins University Press New!
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- Clinical Oncology, 3e by Martin Abeloff on 8 pages
- Palliative Medicine: A Case-based Manual by Neil MacDonald on 5 pages
- Hospice Care: Principles and Practice by Charles A. and Corr Corr on page 72, page 162, and page 292
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine by Derek Doyle on page 199, page 421, and page 422
- Principles and Practice of Supportive Oncology by Ann Berger on page 162, page 185, and page 358
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