Palliative medicine

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care.

Early stage breast cancer can be stressful and upsetting for both the woman dealing with the disease and her partner.

Written by experienced authorities from around the world giving a wider international perspective on palliative nursing, this substantially expanded new edition has been specifically adapted to reflect working practices within the NHS.

This book contains a foreword by Maurice Conlon, Associate Director, Appraisal and Revalidation Lead, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team.

Help your clients achieve victory over chronic pain and lead more fulfilling lives!

This book addresses the psychological, behavioural, emotional, and social issues that arise for cancer patients and their loved ones.

Now fully revised and in its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Oncology has been the essential go-to guide for students and practitioners in oncology for over a decade.

Communication in Palliative Nursing presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication.

Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment.

Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual-reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning.

"e;Children's palliative care is an evolving specialty and as such our knowledge base cannot remain static.

Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care presents a model for effective single-session therapy.

The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care offers a multicultural and international perspective on how art therapy can be of help to individuals, groups, families, communities, and nations facing death and dying as well as grief and loss.

This innovative, comprehensive book covers key elements of perioperative management of older patients, from preoperative evaluation to post-hospital care.

A case-based approach to the intensive care medicine curriculum, with 48 case studies linking core knowledge to clinical context.

Pediatric palliative care is a field of significant growth as health care systems recognize the benefits of palliative care in areas such as neonatal intensive care, pediatric ICU, and chronic pediatric illnesses.

Despite the familiarity of hope in human experience, it is a phenomenon infrequently considered from a philosophical point of view.

Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patientswith life-threatening illness.

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.

This essential guide encompasses over 160 pivotal papers critical for doctors preparing for postgraduate exams in intensive care, interviews, or commencing an intensive care rotation.

A Long Walk Home is Rachel Clark's 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.

While many effective interventions have been developed with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer, they are of no benefit to the health of populations if they cannot be delivered.

The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by.

The essence of nursing care continually exposes nurses to suffering.

This book provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

Individuals with serious and incurable illnesses often require care that goes beyond the body.

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 new edition of the Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain has been fully updated and expanded, with five new chapters on novel interventional techniques in cancer pain amelioration.

This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care.

This practical and accessible guide covers the core knowledge and key concepts required during the first 3 months in anaesthetics.

Improving care for the patients who are in the last phase of their lives has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during last few years.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care.

Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for nursing students, health and social care practitioners, and all those involved in palliative care delivery, both in the clinical and home setting.

In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics.

High quality instruction in an authentic clinical environment is a must for all healthcare programs.

This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older people with communication and swallowing difficulties.

Informal caregivers - family members, friends, and other loved ones - are an essential, uncompensated and significantly burdened extension of the healthcare team.

Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness.

Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author's partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery.

Focussing on end-of-life care for people who use, or have used, substances, this book explores their social and health care needs and the multiple disadvantages they have often experienced, discussing the complexities around access to care that result.

The first resource of its kind, Palliative and Serious Illness Patient Management for Physician Assistants provides a fundamental framework for physician assistants and physician associates to incorporate palliative care medicine, including end-of-life care, into their practice.

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

This is the first textbook to show how research using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods relates to improving health and social care practice.

Modern medical technology has changed not only the way we live but also the way we die.

A unique "e;mentor in a pocket"e; handbook covering the most emotionally-trying experience nurses faceFrom a world recognized expert on care for the dying, comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on palliative care.

The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by.

Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987.

This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991.

Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety provides a brief set of clinical guidelines for handling clinical depression and anxiety in cancer patients.

The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.