Care of the imminently dying / edited by Judith A. Paice, PhD, RB, FAAN (Director of Cancer Pain Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois).
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TextSeries: HPNA palliative nursing manuals ; v. 7.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 94 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780190244293
- 0190244291
- 9780190244316
- 0190244313
- 616.02/9Â 23
- RT87.T45
- WY 152.3
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TNU, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science Internet | Link to resource | Available |
Print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Delirium / Debra E. Heidrich and Nancy K. English -- Dyspnea, death rattle, and cough / Deborah Dudgeon -- Urgent syndromes at the end of life / Barton T. Bobb -- Sedation for refractory symptoms / Patti Knight, Laura A. Espinosa, and Bonnie Freeman -- Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies : mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and cardiac devices / Margaret L. Campbell and Linda M. Gorman.
"Provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death rattle, or cough, urgent syndromes that may appear at the end of life, palliative sedation, and the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies."--Book cover