Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Herausgeber: Goldstein, Nathan E; Morrison, R. Sean; Woodrell, Christopher D.

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a practical, question-and-answer approach, Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine, 2nd Edition, helps you provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. This unique reference focuses on patient and family/caregiver-centered care, highlighting the benefits of palliative care and best practices for delivery. The highly practical, user-friendly format sets it apart from other texts in the field, with concise, readable chapters organized around clinical questions that you’re most likely to encounter in everyday care. * Uniquely organized using a question-and-answer approach, making it easy to find answers to common questions asked by practitioners and patients. * Up-to-date, reader-friendly chapters explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations and guidelines, communication techniques, and available resources for palliative care. * Expanded discussions on hospice in every chapter, and a new emphasis on pediatrics, with increased material on pediatric malignancies, developmental delays, cystic fibrosis, and perinatal palliative care. * New chapters on wellness of the palliative care practitioner, patients with opioid use disorders, telehealth in palliative care, health disparities, rural palliative care, caring for people with hematologic malignancies, integrative and alternative therapies, LGBTQ+ populations, mobile health technologies, and national palliative care implementation strategies. * High-quality evidence gathered and reviewed by leading experts in palliative medicine, including clinicians, educators, and researchers across a broad range of disciplines. * Numerous algorithms throughout help you make informed decisions, and "take-home" points in every chapter provide a quick summary of key content. * Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures from the book on a variety of devices. Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 214mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1578g
• ISBN-13: 9780323847025
• ISBN-10: 0323847021
• Artikelnr.: 64202005

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Symptom Management Section A PAIN 1 How Should Opioids Be Started
and Titrated? 2 What Principles Should Guide Opioid Dose Conversions? 3 How
Is Patient-Controlled Analgesia Best Used to Control Pain? 4 Which Opioids
Are Safest and Most Effective in Patients With Renal or Hapatic Failure? 5
How Should Mathadone Be Started and Titrated in Opioid-Naive and
Opioid-Exposed Patients? 6 What Is Neuropathic Pain and How Is It Best
Managed? 7 How Are Adjuvant Medications Such as Corticosteroids and NSAIDs
Used for Pain Management? 8 What Are the Approaches to Pain in Skeletal
Bone Disease? 9 When and How Should Radiotherapy Be Considered for Pain
Management? 10 What Principles Should guide the Prescribing of Opioids for
Noncancer Pain? 11 How Does the Opioid Epidemic Impact Palliative Medicine
Practice? 12 How Does One Approach the Patient With an Opioid Use Disorder?
13 When Should Epidural or Intrathecal Medications and Pumps Be Considered
for Pain Management? 14 When Should Nerve Blocks Be Used for Pain
Management?
Section B DYSPNEA 15 What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea
in People With Cancer? 16 What Interventions Are Effective for Managing
Dyspnea in COPD? 17 What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea
in Heart Failure? Section C GASTROINTESTINAL 18 What Medications Are
Effective in Preventing and Relieving Constipation in the Setting of Opioid
Use? 19 How Should Medications Be Initiated and Titrated to Reduce Acute
and Delayed Nausea and Vomiting in the Setting of Chemotherapy? 20 How
Should Medications Be Initiated and Titrated to Prevent and Treat Nausea
and Vomiting in the Clinical Situations Unrelated to Chemotherapy? 21 What
Interventions Are Effective for Relieving Acute Bowel Obstruction in Cancer
and Other Conditions? Section D ANOREXIA/CACHEXIA/FEEDING DIFFICULTIES 22
What Therapies Are Effective in Improving Anorexia and Weight Loss in
Cancer? 23 What Therapeutic Strategies Are Effective in Improving Anoerexia
and Weight Loss in Nonmalignant Disease? 24 What Is the Role of Parenteral
and Enteral Nutrition in Patients With Cancer and With Noncancer Illness?
Section E PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS 25 What Treatments Are Effective for
Depression in Palliative Care Settings? 26 How Are Anxiety and Fear Best
Treated in Patients With Serious Illness and in Those Facing the End of
Life? 27 What Is the Approach to the Patient Seeking a Hastened Death?
Section F DELIRIUM 28 What Is Delirium and How Should It Be Managed? 29
What Are Effective Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatments for
Delirium? 30 How Do Symptoms Change for Patients in the Last Days/Hours of
Life? PART II: Communication 31 Prognosis in Palliative Care: Estimating
Prognosis in Serious Illness and Communication Strategies 32 What Are the
Key Elements to Having a Conversation About Communicating Serious News and
Setting Goals? 33 What Are the Elements of Advance Care Planning and What
Is the Evidence That Advance Care Planning Changes Patient Outcomes? 34
What Are the Special Communication Issues Involved in Caring for Pediatric
Patients? Part III: Disease-Specific Topics Section A CANCER 35 What Is the
Role for Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Solid-Tumor
Malignancies? 36 What Is the Clinical Course of Advanced Solid-Tumor
Cancers 37 What Is the Role for Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced
Hematologic Malignancies? 38 What Is the Clinical Course of Hematologic
Malignancies? 39 What is the Role for Palliative Care in Children With
Cancer? 40 What Is the Clinical Course of Pediatric Cancers? Section B
DEMENTIA 41 What Is the Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia? 42 What Are
Appropriate Palliative Interventions for Patients With Advanced Dementia?
Section C ADVANCED LIVER DISEASE 43 What Are the Causes and Complications
of Chronic Liver Disease and What Is the Evidence for Palliative Care
Delivery to Those Affected by It? 44 What Do We Know About the Symptoms and
Palliative Care Needs of People Affected by Liver Disease? Section D BRAIN
FUNCTION 45 What Is the Role of Palliative Care and Stroke? 46 What Special
Considerations Are Needed for Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, and Multiple Sclerosis? Section E HEART
FAILURE 47 What Is the Clinical Course of Advanced Heart Failure and How Do
Implanted Cardiac Devices Alter This Course? Section F CHRONIC CRITICAL
ILLNESS 48 What Is Chronic Critical Illness and What Outcomes Can Be
Expected? Section G HEAD AND NECK CANCER 49 What Special Considerations Are
Needed in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer? Section H END-STAGE RENAL
DISEASE 50 What Special Considerations Are Needed in Treating Symptoms in
Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease, and How Should Patients Who Stop
Dialysis Be Managed? 51 What Are Palliative Alternatives to Renal
Replacement Therapy for People With Advanced Kidney Failure? Section I
PULMONARY 52 What Special Considerations Are Needed for Patients With
Advanced Lung Disease? Section J GERIATRICS 53 What Are the Special Needs
of Older Adults With Serious Illness? 54 What Are Multimorbidity and
Frailty and How Do They Affect the Care of Older Adults? Section K
PEDIATRICS 55 What Are Special Considerations for Pediatric Palliative
Care? 56 What Are Special Considerations for Dosing Medications in
Pediatric Populations? 57 How Are Children With Developmental Diseases and
Delays Best Managed in Palliative Care? 58 What Are Special Considerations
for Perinatal Palliative Care? 59 What Are Special Considerations for
Patients With Cystic Fibrosis? PART IV: Special Topics Section A PALLIATIVE
CARE EMERGENCIES 60 What Are the Signs, Symptoms, and Treatments of Spinal
Cord Compression? 61 What Framework Can Be Used to Address Uncontrolled
Symptoms at the End of Life? Section B FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF PALLIATIVE CARE
62 What Are the Arguments That Show That Palliative Care Is Beneficial to
Hospitals? 63 What Are the Arguments That Show That Outpatient Palliative
Care Is Beneficial to Medical Systems? Section C CAREGIVERS 64 How Does
Serious illness Affect Family Caregivers? 65 What Can Be Done to Improve
Outcomes for Caregivers of People With Serious Illness? 66 What Is
Prolonged Grief Disorder and How Can Its Likelihood Be Reduced? Section D
SETTINGS FOR PALLIATIVE CARE DELIVERY 67 What Are the Models for Delivering
Palliative Care in Hospitals? 68 What Models Exist for Delivering
Palliative Care and Hospice in Nursing Homes? 69 What Are the Models for
Delivering Palliative Care in the Ambulatory Practice Setting? 70 What Are
the Models for Delivering Palliative Care in the Home? 71 What Are the
Models for Delivering Palliative Care in Rural Areas? 72 How Is Palliative
Care Best Integrated Into Surgical Services? 73 What Models Exist to
Deliver Palliative Care via Telemedicine? 74 What Are National Strategies
and Frameworks for Palliative Care? 75 What Are Sources of Spiritual and
Existential Suffering for Patients With Advanced Illness? 76 What Are the
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities That Exist in Palliative Care? 77 What
Are the Palliative Care Needs of LGBTQ+ People? 78 What Is the Evidence for
Integrative and Alternative Therapies in Palliative Care? 79 What Is the
Evidence Supportng the Use of Mobile Health Technologies in Palliative
Care? 80 How Can Clinician Well-Being Be Improved and Sustained in
Palliative Care?