End of life care a practical guide

• Other Authors: Kinzbrunner, Barry M. (Editor), Policzer, Joel S. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York McGraw-Hill Medical 2011
• Edition: SECOND EDITION
• Subjects: Terminal Care > methods; Terminal Care > psychology; Palliative Care > methods; Palliative Care > psychology; Advance Directives
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"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...

Table of Contents:

• 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
• 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.