Supportive care for the renal patient /
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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Supportive care series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.