Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care 3rd Edition by Eduardo Bruera, Irene Higginson, Charles von Gunten, Tatsuya Morita 0367642034 9780367642037

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ISBN 10: 0367642034

ISBN 13: 9780367642037

Author: Eduardo Bruera, Irene Higginson, Charles von Gunten, Tatsuya Morita

This new edition provides the essential clinical guidance both for those embarking upon a career in palliative medicine and for those already established in the field. A team of international experts here distil what every practitioner needs to know into a practical and reliable resource.

Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care 3rd Table of contents:

1. The development of hospice and palliative care

2. Palliative care as a public health issue

3. Palliative care as a primary care issue

4. The future of palliative medicine

5. Palliative care and supportive care

6. Ethics in the practice of palliative care

7. Undergraduate education in palliative medicine

8. Graduate education for nonspecialists

9. Challenges of research in palliative and supportive medicine

10. The population: Who are the subjects in palliative medicine research?

11. Study designs in palliative medicine

12. Outcome measurement in palliative care

13. Ethics in palliative care research

14. Adoption of palliative care: The engineering of organizational change

15. Principles of measuring the financial outcomes of specialist palliative care programs

16. Population-based needs assessment for patients and those important to them, such as families

17. Models of palliative care delivery

18. Home palliative care

19. Palliative care unit

20. Multidimensional patient assessment

21. Tools for pain and symptom assessment

22. Quality of life assessment in palliative care

23. Pathophysiology of chronic pain

24. Causes and mechanisms of pain in palliative care patients

25. Opioid analgesics

26. Assessment and management of opioid side effects

27. Adjuvant analgesic medications

28. Alternative routes for systemic opioid delivery

29. Interventional pain procedures in palliative care

30. Pain management in pediatrics

31. Pain in the older adult

32. Neuropathic pain

33. Bone cancer pain and skeletal complications

34. Breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients

35. Somatic symptoms, symptom clusters, and symptom burden

36. Pain in patients with alcohol and drug dependence

37. Cachexia–anorexia syndrome

38. Nausea/vomiting

39. Constipation

40. Jaundice

41. Malignant bowel obstruction

42. Endoscopic treatment of digestive symptoms

43. Mechanism, assessment, and management of fatigue

44. Breathlessness

45. Other respiratory symptoms (cough, hiccup, and secretions)

46. Depression/anxiety

47. Delirium

48. Sleep disturbances in advanced cancer patients

49. Counseling in palliative care

50. Hope in end-of-life care

51. Dehydration and rehydration

52. Fever, sweats, and hot flashes

53. Pruritus

54. Infections in palliative care

55. Pediatric palliative wound care: The unique anatomy and physiology of neonatal skin

56. Mouth care

57. Fistulas

58. Assessment and management of lymphedema

59. Hypercalcemia

60. Hemorrhage

61. Spinal cord compression

62. Clinical features and management of superior vena cava syndrome

63. Acute pain and management

64. Suicide

65. Cancer: Radiotherapy

66. Chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted agents, and immunotherapy

67. Integrative medicine in supportive and palliative care

68. Neurological diseases

69. End-stage congestive heart failure

70. Geriatric palliative care

71. Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

72. Other infectious diseases: Malaria, rabies, tuberculosis

73. Practical resources for palliative care development in countries with limited resources: An IAHPC perspective

74. Prognostic indicators of survival

75. Palliative sedation

76. Staff stress and burnout in palliative care

77. Spiritual care

78. Family caregivers and cultural sensitivity

79. Bereavement

80. Children of palliative care patients

81. Neutropenic fever

82. Side effects of radiation therapy

83. Cardiac and pulmonary toxicities of treatments

84. Oral complications of cancer therapies

85. Dermatologic side effects

86. Peripheral neuropathy and neurotoxicity

87. Sex and sexuality

88. Managing communication challenges with patients and families

89. Supportive and palliative care for patients with HIV infection

90. Implantable cardiac devices

91. Supportive care for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease

92. Palliative care in the emergency department

93. Optimal Symptom Management in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

94. The end of therapy: Building the psychosocial and spiritual bridges to survivorship

95. Rehabilitation in the acute and chronic care setting

96. Long-term cognitive function

97. Gonadal functions and reproductive health

98. Pulmonary rehabilitation

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