Winner of the Hospital Medicine BMA Book Award 2021
The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is a concise, comprehensive guide to palliative care, covering all aspects from symptom relief to emotional and spiritual support for the patient and their family. Written to enable quick access to key information, this is the invaluable companion for those in the palliative care field.
The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is a concise, comprehensive guide to palliative care, covering all aspects from symptom relief to emotional and spiritual support for the patient and their family. Written to enable quick access to key information, this is the invaluable companion for those in the palliative care field.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Ethical issues and the person in the patient
- 2: Communication in palliative care
- 3: Research in palliative care
- 4: Quality of life
- 5: Principles of drug use in palliative care
- 6: Oncology and palliative care
- 7: Palliative care and haematology
- 8: Pain management
- 9: Gastrointestinal symptoms
- 10: Respiratory symptoms
- 11: Genitourinary symptoms
- 12: Skin problems in palliative care
- 13: Neurological problems in advanced cancer
- 14: Palliation of head and neck cancer
- 15: Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer
- 16: Paediatrics
- 17: Heart failure
- 18: Renal failure
- 19: HIV and palliative care
- 20: Dementia and frailty
- 21: Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease
- 22: Psychiatric symptoms in palliative care
- 23: Spiritual care
- 24: The contribution to palliative care of allied health professions
- 25: Complementary and alternative medicine
- 26: Population based end of life care
- 27: Hospital liaison
- 28: Palliative and end of life care for people with learning disabilities
- 29: Emergencies
- 30: Terminal phase
- 31: Bereavement
- 32: Self care for health professionals
- 33: Access to palliative care - international perspectives
- 34: Miscellaneous
