| Reviews |
| - 'A comprehensive guide to the place of surgery and the surgeon in relation to palliative care. In particular, the chapters on psychological response and spirituality cover issues that are rarely touched on at any level on surgical training. However as a surgeon I found them highly relevant.' - Palliative Medicine, Vol 19
- 'This pioneering book is a most welcome first step towards educating the surgical community about the broader aspects of patient-centred care.' - IAHPC Website
- 'In this text, Dunn and Johnson present a collection of international articles addressing the evolving function of palliative surgery, including the unique role of palliative surgeons, in what has historically been recognized as surgical palliation of otherwise uncontrollable symptoms...I believe this text would be a useful reference for all healthcare professionals caring for individuals with
potentially life-threatening disease.' - Journal of Advanced Nursing
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| Description | | - Makes suggestions to surgeons about how to incorporate palliative care principles into surgical practice
- Shows palliative care clinicians how surgery can be used for effective palliation
- Describes the unique metabolic problems encountered as a result of the surgical management of palliative patients
- High profile Editors with an international team of contributors
| Surgical Palliative Care
describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive to be useful in palliation and clinicians instinctively turn to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and other drugs. Surgery, with increasingly minimal access techniques, may be simpler and less invasive than other treatments and
produces excellent palliation. Indeed, most types of surgery are not curative and the aim of this book is to alert all concerned with palliative care to the usefulness and appropriateness of a surgical option.
The text is divided into two sections; the first dealing with general issues, varying from quality of life measurement to spirituality, and the second illustrating their application in
different specialties of surgery ranging from neurosurgery to urology. The book ends with a challenge to surgeons to change their perspective from curative surgery, in terms of simply cure or failure, to improvement in quality of life and relief of symptoms. Aimed primarily at palliative medicine and pain consultants, this book will also appeal to surgeons who increasingly need to know more about
palliative care.
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Readership: Aimed primarily at palliative medicine and pain consultants, this book will also appeal to surgeons who increasingly need to know more about palliative care.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction - is surgical palliative care a paradox?
,
Dunn
2.
Selection and preparation of patients for surgical palliation
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Easson & Ng
3.
The ethics of interventional care
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Angelos
4.
The physiological response to surgical trauma
,
Barber & Fearon
5.
The psychological response to surgery
,
Stevens
6.
Spirituality and surgery
,
P. Ravenscroft & E. Ravenscroft
7.
Interdisciplinary care
,
Mosenthal, Price & Murphy
8.
Quality of life issues in palliative surgery
,
Koller, Nies & Lorenz
9.
Anaesthesia and peri-operative pain management
,
Simpson & Bush
10.
Symptom palliation of diseases of the head and neck (including dentistry)
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Rogers
11.
The surgical relief of the symptomatic chest
,
Nelems
12.
Surgery for the control of symptoms in the abdomen
,
Johnson
13.
Symptom control in urological malignancy
,
Doherty & O'Sullivan
14.
Wound and reconstructive problems in advanced disease
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Krizek
15.
Neurosurgical palliation
,
Johnson
16.
The role of the ophthalmologist in advanced disease
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Yorsten
17.
Perspectives from the developing world and diverse societies
,
Aluwihare
18.
Epilogue: a message to all surgeons
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Dunn & Johnson
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Geoffrey P Dunn, Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Hamot Medical Center and Medical Director, Great Lakes Hospice, Erie, Pennsylvania and
Alan G Johnson, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Sheffield
| | Contributors:Professor Arjuna Aluwihare, Department of Surgery, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka; Peter Angelos, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA; Professor Matthew D. Barber, Department of Clinical and Surgical Science (Surgery), Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Dudley J. Bush,
Pain Management Service, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK; Alan P. Doherty, Consultant Genito-urinary Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, UK; Geoffrey P. Dunn, Department of Surgery, Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA; Alexandra Easson, Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Professor Kenneth C. H. Fearon, Department of
Clinical and Surgical Science (Surgery), Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Professor Alan Johnson, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Sheffield, UK; Professor Dennis L. Johnson, Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics and Medicine; Medical Director, Center for Palliative Care, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA; Michael Koller, Institute of Theoretical Surgery,
Philipps University Marburg, Germany; Thomas J. Krizek, Courtsey Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Surgery and Medcine (Ethics), University of South Florida, Florida, USA; Professor Wilfred Lorenz, Institute of Theoretical Surgery, Philipps University Marburg, Germany; Anne Mosenthal, Associate Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA; Patricia
Murphy, Advanced Practice Nurse for Ethics and Bereavement, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA; Bill Nelems, Professor of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Canada; Thoracic Surgeon, Kelowna General Hospital, Canada; Alexander Ng, Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Joe M. O'Sullivan, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Academic
Unit of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, UK; David Price, Clinical Bioethicist, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA; Peter Ravenscroft, Professor of Palliative Care, University of Newcastle, Australia; Director of Palliative Care, Newcastle Mater Hospital and Hunter Area, Australia; Elizabeth Ravenscroft,
Department of Pastoral Care, Newcastle Mater Hospital, Australia; Simon N. Rogers, Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK; Karen H. Simpson, Pain Management Service, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK; Laurie Stevens, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA; David
Yorsten |
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