| Reviews |
| - 'The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is a concise and well-organized reference text for both palliative care clinicians and other clinicians...The introduction provides a solid foundation from which the rest of the text is built...succinct and pocket-sized...[with] useful information for experienced palliative care clinicians...a valuable resource...to anyone who participates in providing
palliative care...As the population continues to age and the number of people with life-limiting or life-threatening illness increases, there will be a greater need for all clinicians to provide skilled and competent palliative care. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care is an excellent reference guide that can assist them in providing such care.' - Respiratory Care Vol. 51 No. 4
- 'Practical and compact, the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (OHPC) addresses most, if not all of the issues one would expect and desire. ...The OHCP is a wonderful book. It can be used as a reference book, an aide memoire or a revision aid equally well and I see it as an invaluable tool for anyone involved in providing palliative care, not just for those who specialise in this field.' - Hospice Information Bulletin
- 'This little book is packed with practical information . . . It will be of use to any health care professionals who deal with palliative care patients and their families; this applies both to people who work in palliative care and to those who only occasionally run into a palliative care patient, for whom it can be recommended as a comprehensive practical guide that is relatively inexpensive.' - IAHPC Website
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| Description | | - Concise advice on symptom control to assist the reader in clinical management
- Includes sections on emotional and spiritual care to help the reader deal with areas they may find uncomfortable
- Covers the growth of palliative care for patients with non-malignant disease
- Includes advice on how to improve the management of patients with palliative care needs in the community
- Includes a formulary of commonly used palliative care drugs
- Written with the support of an international group of advisers from a variety of backgrounds, who are all actively involved in the care of patients with palliative care needs
| The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care
covers all aspects of palliative care in a concise and succinct format suited to busy professionals who need to access key information in their daily care of patients. This practical guide covers briefly the historical and epidemiological background of palliative care, and the growth of palliative medicine as a specialty, before dealing with major
physical, psychological and spiritual, and symptom management issues from diagnosis to bereavement care.
In addition to the adult chapters, the handbook includes an extensive paediatric section. The oncology section outlines the treatment regimes of the common cancers and details the chemotherapeutic agents, including their side effects. The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care
will prove
invaluable for specialist doctors, nurses and professionals allied to medicine who are involved in the day-to-day care of adults, children and families with palliative care needs.
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Readership: Trainees in palliative medicine, specialist nurses, general practitioners and all health care professionals looking after patients with palliative care needs.
| Contents |
1.
History of palliative medicine as a specialty
2.
Ethical issues
3.
Breaking bad news
4.
Research in palliative medicine
5.
Patient evaluation and outcome measures
6.
The principles of drug use in palliative medicine
7.
Oncology and palliative care
8.
Symptom management
9.
The management of pain
10.
Gastro-intestinal symptoms
11.
Cachexia, anorexia and fatigue
12.
Sweating and fever
13.
Respiratory symptoms
14.
Skin problems in palliative care
15.
Genito-urinary problems
16.
Palliation of head and neck cancer
17.
Endocrine and metabolic complications of advanced cancer
18.
Complications of advanced cancer
19.
Neurological problems in advanced cancer
20.
Sleep disorders
21.
Haematological aspects
22.
Psychiatric symptoms in palliative medicine
23.
Paediatric palliative care
24.
Palliative care in non-malignant disease
25.
AIDS in adults
26.
Palliative care in non-malignant respiratory disease
27.
Palliative care in heart failure
28.
Palliative care in non-malignant neurological disease
29.
Palliation in the care of the elderly
30.
Spiritual care
31.
The contribution to palliative care by associated health professionals
32.
Complementary therapies in palliative care
33.
Palliative care in the home
34.
The terminal phase
35.
Bereavement
36.
Emergencies in palliative care
37.
Miscellaneous
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Max Watson, Specialist Registrar, Northern Ireland Palliative Medicine Training Scheme, Belfast,
Caroline Lucas, Deputy Medical Director, Princess Alice Hospice, Esher, Surrey; Clinical Director, North Surrey Primary Care NHS Trust; Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey,
Andrew Hoy, Medical Director, Princess Alice Hospice, Esher, Surrey; Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, and
Ian Back, Deputy Medical Director, Marie Curie Centre, Vale of Glamorgan
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