http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations
An international group of contributors provides a comprehensive evidence-based overview of supportive care for the nephrology patient, emphasising the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care and the issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis.
Changing patterns of renal replacement therapy -- Concept of supportive care for the renal patient -- Planning a renal palliative care programme and its components -- Advance care planning in patients with end-stage renal disease -- What determines a good outcome? The selection of patients for renal replacement therapy -- Health-related quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease -- Symptoms in renal disease: their epidemiology, assessment, and management -- Management of pain in renal failure -- Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with advanced renal disease -- Spiritual care of the renal patient -- Support of the home-dialysis patient -- Initiation, withdrawal, and withholding of dialysis -- Clinical -- Communicating with patients and family -- Conservative management of end-stage renal disease -- End-stage renal disease in the older person -- Death and end-of-life care in advanced kidney disease.
edited by E. Joanna Chambers, Edwina Brown, Michael J. Germain.
Includes bibliographical references and index.