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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 0070348839
Release Date: Jan 7, 2001
Rating: 3 Stars from Doody
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This user-friendly guide offers you practical,direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients,families,and other health care professionals,as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients,managing symptoms,and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life This user-friendly guide offers you practical,direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients,families,and other health care professionals,as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients,managing symptoms,and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life
* Guidance on timing: when is end-of-life care needed?
* Breaking bad news: how to inform the patient
* Useful,current,guidelines on the treatment of pain,dyspnea,skin and mucus membrane problems,gastrointestinal conditions,and other common symptoms near the end of life
* In-depth discussion of end-of-life controversies,including advance directives and resuscitation,nutritional support and parenteral hydration,and physician-assisted suicide
* How to assess quality of life near its end
* Practical help with end-of-life care for special groups,such as HIV and pediatric patients
* Guidance on bereavement,depression,and other psychosocial and spiritual issues at the end of life
* Suggestions on benefiting from interdisciplinary teamwork
* What every clinician needs to know about the last days of the actively dying
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Kinzbrunner, Barry M., MD; Weinreb, Neal J., MD; Policzer, Joel S., MD
| |  | | | Preparing Patients for Enf of Life Care
How to Decide When End of Life Care is Needed: Predicting Prognosis
How to Help Patients Access End of Life Care
How to Inform the Patient: Breaking Bad News
How to Work with an Interdisciplinary Team
How to Measure Quality of Life near the End of Life
Common Symptoms at the End of Life
Pain
Dyspnea
Gastrointestinal Symptoms
Disorders of the Nervous System
Disorders of the Skin and Mucous Membranes
Depression and Other common Symptoms Near the End of Life
The Last Days: The Actively Dying Patient
Psychosocial and Spiritual Disorders Near the End of Life
Bereavement
Ethical Issues and Controversies Near the End of Life
Advance Directives and the Question of CPR
Nutritional Support and Parenteral Hydration Near the End of Life
Diagnostic Studies and Invasive Therapies Near the End of Life
Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Special Groups
End of Life Care for Patients with HIV
Care of the Pediatric Patient Near the End of Life
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