Supportive Care for the Renal Patient

Herausgeber: Brown, Edwina; Germain, Michael; Chambers, E Joanna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of supportive care for the renal patient. An international group of contributors emphasise the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care and the issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199560035
• ISBN-10: 019956003X
• Artikelnr.: 29425592

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction to ethical case analysis
* 1: David Ansell, S. Risdale and Fergus Caskey: Changing patterns of
renal replacement therapy
* 2: E. Joanna Chambers and Edwina Brown: The concept of supportive
care for the renal patient
* 3: Maria Da Silva-Gane and Lewis M. Cohen: Planning a renal
palliative care programme and its components
* 4: Sara N. Davison, Jean L. Holley and Jane Seymour: Advance care
planning in patients with end-stage renal disease
* 5: Terry Feest: What determines a good outcome?: the selection of
patients for renal replacement therapy
* 6: Fredric O. Finkelstein and Susan H. Finkelstein: Health-related
quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease
* 7: Fliss Murtagh and Steven D. Weisbord: Symptoms in renal disease:
their epidemiology, assessment and management
* 8: Sara N. Davison, E. Joanna Chambers and Charles J. Ferro:
Management of pain in renal failure
* 9: Daniel Cukor, Eileen M. Farrell, Lewis M. Cohen and Paul L.
Kimmel: Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with
advanced renal disease
* 10: Chris Davies and Ira Byock: Spiritual care of the renal patient
* 11: Alastair Hutchison and Helen Hurst: Support of the home dialysis
patient
* 12: Lionel U. Mailloux 12.2: Communicating with patients and
familyTom Sensky and Celia Eggeling: Initiation, withdrawal and
withholding of dialysis: 12.1: Clinical
* 13: Fliss Murtagh and Neil Sheerin: Conservative management of
end-stage renal disease
* 14: Lina Johansson and Edwina A. Brown: End-stage renal disease in
the older person
* 15: Ken Farrington and E. Joanna Chambers: Death and end-of-life-care
in advanced kidney disease