Therapeutic guidelines : palliative care.
Therapeutic guidelines : palliative care.
Palliative care
- Version 4.
- xvi, 407 pages ; 18 cm
- Therapeutic guidelines .
- Therapeutic guidelines. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tables, boxes and figures -- Palliative Care 4 Expert Group -- Acknowledgements -- Key information -- Board of directors of TGL -- Topics -- Overview of palliative care -- Advance care planning -- Decision-making and ethical challenges in palliative care -- Communicating with the patient -- Providing palliative care in the community -- Support for families and carers -- Caring for dying patients: impact on healthcare providers -- Loss, grief and bereavement -- Principles of paediatric palliative care -- Emergency care presentations -- Principles of symptom management -- Managing comorbidities and deprescribing -- Palliative care for life-limiting illnesses other than cancer -- Pain: assessment -- Pain: management -- Pain: opioid therapy in palliative care -- Fatigue -- Respiratory symptoms -- Gastrointestinal symptoms -- Psychological symptoms -- Neurological and neuromuscular symptoms -- Dematological symptoms -- Genitourinary symptoms -- Haematological problems -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Terminal care: care in the last days of life -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Subcutaneous drug administration in palliative care -- Appendix 2. Drug availability in palliative care -- index.
9780992527259 0992527252
Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, Ground Floor, 473 Victoria Street, West Melbourne, VIC 3003
Palliative treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Terminal care--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Hospices (Terminal care)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
616.029
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tables, boxes and figures -- Palliative Care 4 Expert Group -- Acknowledgements -- Key information -- Board of directors of TGL -- Topics -- Overview of palliative care -- Advance care planning -- Decision-making and ethical challenges in palliative care -- Communicating with the patient -- Providing palliative care in the community -- Support for families and carers -- Caring for dying patients: impact on healthcare providers -- Loss, grief and bereavement -- Principles of paediatric palliative care -- Emergency care presentations -- Principles of symptom management -- Managing comorbidities and deprescribing -- Palliative care for life-limiting illnesses other than cancer -- Pain: assessment -- Pain: management -- Pain: opioid therapy in palliative care -- Fatigue -- Respiratory symptoms -- Gastrointestinal symptoms -- Psychological symptoms -- Neurological and neuromuscular symptoms -- Dematological symptoms -- Genitourinary symptoms -- Haematological problems -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Terminal care: care in the last days of life -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Subcutaneous drug administration in palliative care -- Appendix 2. Drug availability in palliative care -- index.
9780992527259 0992527252
Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, Ground Floor, 473 Victoria Street, West Melbourne, VIC 3003
Palliative treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Terminal care--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Hospices (Terminal care)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
616.029