Palliative Care A Case-based Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Loitman, Jane E. (Editor), Sinclair, Christian T. (Editor), Fisch, Michael J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2010.
• Series: Current Clinical Oncology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Nursing.; Pain Medicine.; Quality of Life.; Quality of Life > Research.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Quality of Life Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-590-3

This concise book offers an engaging case-based approach to palliative care. Experts in the field provide the essential aspects of daily practice with real cases presented as forums for the discussion of the complexities and practicalities of palliative treatment. Clearly structured, each chapter op...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Global Palliative Care Issues
• Palliative Care Communication Issues
• Nutritional Palliative Care Issues
• Psychiatric Palliative Care Issues
• Cardiac Palliative Care Issues
• Pulmonary Palliative Care Issues
• GI Palliative Care Issues
• Palliative Pain Issues
• Palliative Wound and Skin Issues
• Issues in the Last Hours.