End of life care a practical guide

"The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care. End of Life Care: A Practical Guide offers solution-oriented coverage of the real-world issues and challenges that arise daily for clinicians caring for those with life-limiting illnesses and con...

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Other Authors: Kinzbrunner, Barry M. (Editor), Policzer, Joel S. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York McGraw-Hill Medical 2011
Edition:SECOND EDITION
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505 0 # |a Machine generated contents note: Section I -- Preparing Patients for End-of-Life Care -- Predicting Prognosis: How to Decide When End-of-Life Care Is Needed -- How to Help Patients Access End-of-Life Care -- Communicating with Patients and Families -- Part 1: How to Inform the Patient: Conveying Bad News Part 2: Goals of Care and Decision-Making Conversations -- Section II: Management of Symptoms -- How to Work with the Interdisciplinary Team -- Measuring Outcomes and Quality of Life -- Management of Pain at the End of Life -- Dyspnea and Other Respiratory Symptoms -- Gastrointestinal Symptoms near the End of Life -- Neurological Symptoms at the End of Life -- Delirium, Depression, and Anxiety -- Wound Care and Other Dermatologic Problems at the End of Life -- The Last Days: The Actively Dying Patient -- Other Common Symptoms near the End of Life -- Psychosocial and Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life -- The Physicians Role in Spiritual Care -- Psychosocial and Spiritual Assessments -- Grief and Bereavement -- 
505 0 # |a Section III: Diagnostic and Invasive Interventions -- Diagnostic Tests and Invasive Procedures in End-of-Life Care -- Palliative Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy -- Invasive Cardiac Interventions --Invasive Respiratory Care -- Part 1: Invasive Respiratory Interventions -- Part 2: Discontinuation of Mechanical Ventilation -- Ethical Dilemmas -- Advance Directives and CPR at the End of Life -- Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Palliative Sedation -- Artificial Nutrition and Hydration -- Section V: Specific Population -- End-of-Life Care in Patients with AIDS -- Care of the Pediatric Patient at the End of Life - Grief and Bereavement in Children -- End-of-Life Care and Critical Care: ICU and the ER -- Hospice in Long-Term Care -- The Geriatric Patient: Pain Management -- Section VI: Diversity -- Cultural Diversity and End-of-Life Care -- Religious Diversity and End-of-Life Care. 
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