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Palliative medicine : a case-based manual /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: MacDonald, Neil, 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Palliative Care.
Pain Management.
Case Reports.
Palliative treatment.
Table of Contents:
  • Communication in advanced illness
  • Managing pain in palliative patients
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Bone pain
  • Visceral pain
  • Neurological effects : opioids
  • Anorexia-cachixia syndrome
  • Fatigue
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Grief
  • Sleep
  • Dyspnoea
  • Cough
  • AIDS
  • Endstage renal disease and discontinuation of dialysis
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Constipation
  • Malignant bowel obstruction
  • Spiritual care
  • An approach to ethical issues
  • Ethics in palliative care research
  • When palliative care involves children : talking with the child as a family member, and as a patient, pain and symptoms highlights
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Dehydration
  • Mouth care
  • Malignant wounds and pressure ulcers
  • Lymphodema
  • Geniourinary symptoms
  • Home care of dying patients
  • 'I found this on the Internet' : palliative care in the information age