Palliative medicine

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 first comprehensive, clinically focused guide to help hospitalists and other hospital-based clinicians provide quality palliative care in the inpatient setting.

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

Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better.

Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide, providing exhaustive information on nutrition and diet in terminal and palliative care.

Von den anatomischen und physiologischen Grundlagen über die unterschiedlichen Beatmungsformen bis zu Besonderheiten in Anästhesie und auf der Intensivstation – erfahren Sie alles über das Angstthema Beatmung.

Hohe Kompetenz und fundiertes Wissen in der PalliativmedizinDie Palliativmedizin versteht sich als integrative Disziplin, die lange vor dem Lebensende und über den Tod hinaus zum Einsatz kommt.

Fully updated for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Neurology is the definitive guide for all those working in neurology and neurosurgery.

Mehr Lebensqualität durch AkzeptanzDie Diagnose Krebs ist für Betroffene und ihre Angehörigen ein Schock und löst starke Unsicherheiten und Ängste aus.

As an essential and emerging practice, Pediatric palliative care seeks to prevent and relieve suffering for children with life-threatening conditions.

This volume speaks to the issue of occupational therapy practice with the patient in pain.

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

Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at school before gaining entry to Oxford University to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Psycho-oncology has a central place in palliative care and has become established internationally as a specialist field within medicine.

'This book is a tribute to expert nursing.

All physicians are involved in the management of pain at some level or the other, but of the various specialties and health professions, orthopedic surgeons are at the frontline of delivering perioperative pain care for a wide variety of problems that range from skeletal trauma, joint replacement procedures, bone tumors and spinal conditions.

This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting.

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.

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services.

Pediatric Palliative Care: A Model for Exemplary Practice lays out a road map for health-care providers interested in optimizing care for seriously ill children and their families.

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

Cancer is a deadly disease that puts not only physical and financial pressure on the patient but also even more psychological pressure.

Sterben bedeutet für viele Menschen: eine letzte große Lebenskrise muss bestanden werden.

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

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

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.

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness.

People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life, and so too do their families and the professionals working with them.

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

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

Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-speciality of cardiology.

'Kunst und Kreativität in der Palliative Care' beschreibt erfolgreiche künstlerische Programme, die von Künstlern, Autoren, Pflegenden, Musikern, Therapeuten, Sozialarbeitern und Seelsorgern in der Palliative Care initiiert wurden.

This book is a comprehensive guide to Targeted Drug Delivery (TDD), also known as Intrathecal Drug Delivery (IDD), and offers an overview to this unique form of treatment.

A handbook for acupuncturists and healthcare practitioners on the use of acupuncture for end-of-life care.

Death studies have, over the last twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying.

Das erste umfassende Praxishandbuch für Pflegende, Ärzte und Palliative Care Teams, um Menschen mit schwerer Herzinsuffizienz und Herzerkrankungen in palliativen Lebenssituationen professionell zu behandeln und zu begleiten.

The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care.

A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects.

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward.

This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.

Der freiwillige Verzicht auf Nahrung und Flüssigkeit – Sterbefasten genannt – ist eine natürliche Form des Sterbens.

Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved.

The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer offers a succinct, all-in-one introduction to the full gamut of compassion, from the evolutional, biological, behavioural, and psychological, to the social, philosophical, and spiritual.

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.

50 Studies Every Palliative Doctor Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of palliative medicine.

Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide, providing exhaustive information on nutrition and diet in terminal and palliative care.

No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine.