Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care

Name: Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care
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ISBN: 9780367642037

by Eduardo Bruera, Irene Higginson, Charles von Gunten

3rd Edition

Publisher: CRC Press

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Print ISBN	9780367642037
eText ISBN	9781000280890
Publisher	CRC Press
Publishing Year	2021
Edition	3rd Edition
Language	English
Pages	974

Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, 3rd Edition, is a textbook designed to provide clinical guidance across palliative and supportive medicine. The volume examines public health contexts, service delivery models, and clinical pain evaluation.

Created for clinicians entering palliative medicine as well as established specialists, the text addresses symptom assessment, research methodologies, and professional education. It also explores organizational change alongside specific care settings such as home palliative care.

Chapter 1: The development of hospice and palliative care
Chapter 2: Palliative care as a public health issue
Chapter 3: Palliative care as a primary care issue
Chapter 4: The future of palliative medicine
Chapter 5: Palliative care and supportive care
Chapter 6: Ethics in the practice of palliative care
Chapter 7: Undergraduate education in palliative medicine
Chapter 8: Graduate education for nonspecialists
Chapter 9: Challenges of research in palliative and supportive medicine
Chapter 10: The population: Who are the subjects in palliative medicine research?
Chapter 11: Study designs in palliative medicine
Chapter 12: Outcome measurement in palliative care
Chapter 13: Ethics in palliative care research
Chapter 14: Adoption of palliative care: The engineering of organizational change
Chapter 15: Principles of measuring the financial outcomes of specialist palliative care programs
Chapter 16: Population-based needs assessment for patients and those important to them, such as families
Chapter 17: Models of palliative care delivery
Chapter 18: Home palliative care
Chapter 19: Palliative care unit
Chapter 20: Multidimensional patient assessment
Chapter 21: Tools for pain and symptom assessment
Chapter 22: Quality of life assessment in palliative care
Chapter 23: Pathophysiology of chronic pain
Chapter 24: Causes and mechanisms of pain in palliative care patients
Chapter 25: Opioid analgesics
Chapter 26: Assessment and management of opioid side effects
Chapter 27: Adjuvant analgesic medications
Chapter 28: Alternative routes for systemic opioid delivery
Chapter 29: Interventional pain procedures in palliative care
Chapter 30: Pain management in pediatrics
Chapter 31: Pain in the older adult
Chapter 32: Neuropathic pain
Chapter 33: Bone cancer pain and skeletal complications
Chapter 34: Breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients
Chapter 35: Somatic symptoms, symptom clusters, and symptom burden
Chapter 36: Pain in patients with alcohol and drug dependence
Chapter 37: Cachexia–anorexia syndrome
Chapter 38: Nausea/vomiting
Chapter 39: Constipation
Chapter 40: Jaundice
Chapter 41: Malignant bowel obstruction
Chapter 42: Endoscopic treatment of digestive symptoms
Chapter 43: Mechanism, assessment, and management of fatigue
Chapter 44: Breathlessness
Chapter 45: Other respiratory symptoms (cough, hiccup, and secretions)
Chapter 46: Depression/anxiety
Chapter 47: Delirium
Chapter 48: Sleep disturbances in advanced cancer patients
Chapter 49: Counseling in palliative care
Chapter 50: Hope in end-of-life care
Chapter 51: Dehydration and rehydration
Chapter 52: Fever, sweats, and hot flashes
Chapter 53: Pruritus
Chapter 54: Infections in palliative care
Chapter 55: Pediatric palliative wound care: The unique anatomy and physiology of neonatal skin
Chapter 56: Mouth care
Chapter 57: Fistulas
Chapter 58: Assessment and management of lymphedema
Chapter 59: Hypercalcemia
Chapter 60: Hemorrhage
Chapter 61: Spinal cord compression
Chapter 62: Clinical features and management of superior vena cava syndrome
Chapter 63: Acute pain and management
Chapter 64: Suicide
Chapter 65: Cancer: Radiotherapy
Chapter 66: Chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted agents, and immunotherapy
Chapter 67: Integrative medicine in supportive and palliative care
Chapter 68: Neurological diseases
Chapter 69: End-stage congestive heart failure
Chapter 70: Geriatric palliative care
Chapter 71: Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chapter 72: Other infectious diseases: Malaria, rabies, tuberculosis
Chapter 73: Practical resources for palliative care development in countries with limited resources: An IAHPC perspective
Chapter 74: Prognostic indicators of survival
Chapter 75: Palliative sedation
Chapter 76: Staff stress and burnout in palliative care
Chapter 77: Spiritual care
Chapter 78: Family caregivers and cultural sensitivity
Chapter 79: Bereavement
Chapter 80: Children of palliative care patients
Chapter 81: Neutropenic fever
Chapter 82: Side effects of radiation therapy
Chapter 83: Cardiac and pulmonary toxicities of treatments
Chapter 84: Oral complications of cancer therapies
Chapter 85: Dermatologic side effects
Chapter 86: Peripheral neuropathy and neurotoxicity
Chapter 87: Sex and sexuality
Chapter 88: Managing communication challenges with patients and families
Chapter 89: Supportive and palliative care for patients with HIV infection
Chapter 90: Implantable cardiac devices
Chapter 91: Supportive care for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease
Chapter 92: Palliative care in the emergency department
Chapter 93: Optimal Symptom Management in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Chapter 94: The end of therapy: Building the psychosocial and spiritual bridges to survivorship
Chapter 95: Rehabilitation in the acute and chronic care setting
Chapter 96: Long-term cognitive function
Chapter 97: Gonadal functions and reproductive health
Chapter 98: Pulmonary rehabilitation