Supportive Care Series

Series Editors:
Sam H. Ahmedzai, Professor of Palliative Medicine, Academic Unit of Supportive Care, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Declan Walsh, Professor and Director, Harry Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA

Supportive care is the multidisciplinary holistic care of patients all stages of chronic illness, from the time of diagnosis, through treatments aimed at cure or prolonging life, to palliative care. It involves recognising and caring for the side-effects of therapies, as well as patients' psychological, social and spiritual concerns. The approach also values the role of family carers and helps them in supporting the patient, as well as attending to their special needs. Unlike traditional palliative care, which grew from terminal care of cancer patients, supportive care is not restricted to dying patients and neither to cancer. Thus this series covers the support of patients with a variety of long-term conditions, who are currently largely managed by specialist clinical teams in hospital and by primary care teams in community settings.

To find out more about the Supportive Care Series you can read the preface to the series.

THE BOOKS

Supportive Care in Heart Failure
Supportive Care for the Urology Patient
Supportive Care in Respiratory Disease
Supportive Care for the Renal Patient
Surgical Palliative Care

If you have any comments or suggestions for new books in the series, please contact Georgia Pinteau.