This book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to non-invasive mechanical ventilation in palliative medicine, focusing on why and when it may be necessary.
This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required.
Hypnosystemische Therapie, Beratung, Supervision, Coaching - interessante einführende Artikel und Erfahrungsberichte von Experten zum Thema Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Bereich hypnotherapeutischer und systemischer Methoden.
This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the compatibility of palliative care with the vision of human dignity in the Catholic moral and theological traditions.
Das interdisziplinär angelegte Praxishandbuch zur palliativen Versorgung von Menschen mit neurologischen Erkrankungenbietet eine personzentrierte und ressourcenorientierte Perspektive auf die Patient*innen und zielt darauf, deren Lebensqualität und -sinn am Ende des Lebens zu fördern und zu erhaltenerläutert das Grundverständnis der Palliative Care im Kontext der Versorgung neurologischer Patient*innenbeschreibt, wie Symptome neurologisch beeinträchtigter Menschen systematisch erfasst und spezifisch behandelt werden könnenzeigt, wie die Teammitglieder mit kommunikationsbeeinträchtigten, verwirrten und bewusstseinsgestörten Menschen kommunizieren könnenstellt konkrete Behandlungsmöglichkeiten bei Agitation, Delir, Fatigue, Muskeltonuserhöhung, gastrointestinalen und pulmonalen Symptomen sowie Schmerzen und Schlafstörungen vorzeigt neuro-palliative Besonderheiten von Erkrankungen der Muskulatur und des peripheren Nervensystems sowie von ALS, Demenz, MS, Muskelerkrankungen, Parkinson, Schlaganfall und (wach-)komatösen Zuständen aufbeschreibt ethisch schwierige Entscheidungssituationen und zeigt Möglichkeiten, um diese zu analysieren und einvernehmlich zu lösenstellt mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen enge Bezüge zur Praxis her.
The Fourth Edition of this bestselling, highly regarded book has been fully revised to incorporate changes in law and clinical guidance making a vital impact on patient management, encompassing: .
Palliative Care: Learning in Practice is an interactive textbook based on models of open learning, action learning, work-based learning, critical companionship and reflective practice.
This book is a successor to J Griffiths, A Bood and H Weyers, Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press 1998) which was widely praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and accuracy.
Recent developments with novel systemic drugs, palliative surgical techniques and diagnostic imaging have given hope for the treatment of patients whose breast cancer has spread beyond its primary tumour.
So much emphasis in paramedic practice is placed on saving lives, and so how can you provide the best care for patients who are approaching the end of theirs?
The particular needs of people with progressive long-term neurological conditions - including Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington's disease - may make care delivery and planning the last stages of life ethically, practically and clinically challenging.
Framed by the author's personal odyssey as a caregiver and richly informed by the inspiring and poignant tales of others, Caregiving explores medical and financial problems, all aspects of spirituality, and such issues as depression, stress, housing, home care, and end-of-life concerns.
Das interdisziplinär angelegte Praxishandbuch zur palliativen Versorgung von Menschen mit neurologischen Erkrankungenbietet eine personzentrierte und ressourcenorientierte Perspektive auf die Patient*innen und zielt darauf, deren Lebensqualität und -sinn am Ende des Lebens zu fördern und zu erhaltenerläutert das Grundverständnis der Palliative Care im Kontext der Versorgung neurologischer Patient*innenbeschreibt, wie Symptome neurologisch beeinträchtigter Menschen systematisch erfasst und spezifisch behandelt werden könnenzeigt, wie die Teammitglieder mit kommunikationsbeeinträchtigten, verwirrten und bewusstseinsgestörten Menschen kommunizieren könnenstellt konkrete Behandlungsmöglichkeiten bei Agitation, Delir, Fatigue, Muskeltonuserhöhung, gastrointestinalen und pulmonalen Symptomen sowie Schmerzen und Schlafstörungen vorzeigt neuro-palliative Besonderheiten von Erkrankungen der Muskulatur und des peripheren Nervensystems sowie von ALS, Demenz, MS, Muskelerkrankungen, Parkinson, Schlaganfall und (wach-)komatösen Zuständen aufbeschreibt ethisch schwierige Entscheidungssituationen und zeigt Möglichkeiten, um diese zu analysieren und einvernehmlich zu lösenstellt mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen enge Bezüge zur Praxis her.
In recent years, palliative care has emerged as the leading model of person-centered care focused on preserving quality of life and alleviating distress for people and families experiencing serious and life-limiting medical illness.
Palliative nursing reflects a holistic philosophy of care and services for patients and families who face serious or life-threatening illness in a wide variety of settings and conditions.
A great number of cancer patients will suffer some form of social, emotional or psychological distress and challenges as a result of the disease and its treatment.
This ';comfortingthoughtful' (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of lifefrom resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breathby the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door is a ';roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance' (The Boston Globe).
This book offers an extensive range of ideas and practical developing service users' creativity including songmaking, drama, dance, creative writing, music, video and visual arts.
This book is intended for all those who not only have to give bad news but who are also keen to give as much help and support as possible to partners and families - both immediately and during remission relapse terminal illness dying or grieving.
In the past 10 years spirituality and spiritual care have been much debated in professional healthcare literature, highlighting the need for a recognised definition of spiritual care to enable appropriate assessment of, and response to, spiritual issues.
This comprehensive resource book, the key text for the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Programme, supports and enables all primary health professionals, and all those involved in palliative care, to make improvements in care provided for their patients, as recommended in the NICE guidance on Supportive and Palliative Care.
A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clarks evocative and moving account of her treatment and experiences with health professionals in Britain and Australia while she was living with, and dying from, cancer.
This volume provides both the scientific and medical background to manipulation, as well as sound practical advice on how to carry out manipulative techniques.
This book provides practical guidelines for all those who in the course of their work are involved in the terminal care of children or supporting those affected by the death of a child.
