End of life care : a practical guide, editors, Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Joel S. Policzer

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End of life care : a practical guide, editors, Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Joel S. Policzer

Title remainder

a practical guide

Statement of responsibility

editors, Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Joel S. Policzer

Instantiates

• End of life care : a practical guide

Publication

• New York, McGraw-Hill Medical, ©2011

Note

Rev. ed. of: 20 common problems in end-of-life care / editors, Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Neal J. Weinreb, Joel S. Policzer. c2002

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

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text

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• txt

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Contents

Preparing patients for end-of-life care -- Predicting prognosis: how to decide when end-of-life care is needed -- How to assist patients and families in accessing end-of-life care -- Communicating with patients and families -- How to work with the interdisciplinary team -- Measuring outcomes and quality of life -- Management of symptoms -- Management of pain at the end of life -- Dyspnea and other respiratory symptoms -- Gastrointestinal symptoms near the end of life -- Neurological symptoms at the end of life -- Delirium, depression, and anxiety -- Wound care and other dermatologic problems at the end of life -- The last days: the actively dying patient -- Other common symptoms near the end of life -- Psychosocial and spiritual concerns at the end of life -- The physician's role in spiritual care -- Psychosocial and spiritual assessments -- Grief and bereavement -- -- Diagnostic and invasive interventions -- Diagnostic tests and invasive procedures in end-of-life care -- Palliative chemotherapy and radiation therapy -- Invasive cardiac interventions --invasive respiratory care -- Ethical dilemmas -- Advance directives and CPR at the end of life -- Physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and palliative sedation -- Artificial nutrition and hydration -- Specific population -- End-of-life care in patients with AIDS -- Care of the pediatric patient at the end of life -- Grief and bereavement in children -- End-of-life care and critical care: ICU and the ER -- Hospice in long-term care -- The geriatric patient: pain management -- Diversity -- Cultural diversity and end-of-life care -- Religious diversity and end-of-life care

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667592582

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24 cm

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2nd ed.

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xxii, 858 pages

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9780071545273

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(alk. paper)

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2010041766

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.b81255482

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(OCoLC)667592582