Russell K. Portenoy / Eduardo Bruera (eds.)

Topics in Palliative Care

Herausgeber: Portenoy, Russell K; Bruera, Eduardo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Palliative care is a rapidly evolving field focused on the management of problems that undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive incurable medical disorders. It is fundamentally concerned with all factors- physical, psychological, social, and spiritual- that contribute to suffering, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative care is a fundamental aspect to good clinical practice, the "parallel universe" to therapies directed at cure or prolongation of life. All clinicians who treat patients with chronic life-threatening diseases are engaged in providing palliative care, continually attempting to manage complex symptomatology and functional disturbances. The scholarly foundation of palliative care is advancing, and resources are needed to highlight the findings of empirical research. TOPICS IN PALLIATIVE CARE has been designed to meet the need for enhanced communication in this field. To highlight the diversity of concerns in palliative care, each volume of the TOPICS IN PALLIATIVE CARE Series is divided into sections that address a range of salient issues: symptom control, psychosocial functioning, spiritual or existential concerns, and ethics. The authors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from both the clinical and research settings, and integrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable. The specific topics in this volume are: Pediatric Palliative Care, Management of Bone Pain, Psychopathology in Patients with Cancer, and Skin Disorders and their Management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780195102468
• ISBN-10: 0195102460
• Artikelnr.: 21894773

Inhaltsangabe

* Section 1: Paediatric Palliative Care
* 1: Steven J. Weisman: Editor's Note: Pediatric Palliative Care: A
Field in Evolution
* 2: John J. Collins: Focus: Pharmacologic Management of Pediatric
Cancer Pain
* 3: Betty Davies and Rose Steele: Focus: Families in Pediatric
Palliative Care
* 4: Marcia Levetown: Focus: Teatment of Symptoms Other than Pain in
Pediatric Palliative Care
* Section 2: The Management of Bone Pain
* 1: Russell K. Portenoy: Editor's Note: Bone Pain: Defining the Need
for New Approaches
* 2: Jose Pereira: Introduction: The Management of Bone Pain
* 3: D. Scott Ernst: Focus: The Role of Biphosphonates and Other Bone
Resorption Inhibitors in Metastatic Bone Pain
* 4: Frank J. Frassica, Deborah Anne Frassica, Steven A. Lietman,
Cameron A. Huckell, Edmund Y.S. Chao, and Franklin H. Sim: Focus:
Surgical Palliation of Malignant Bone Pain
* Section 3: Psychopathology in Patients with Cancer
* 1: William Breitbart: Editor's Note: Psychiatric Disorders in
Patients with Progressive Medical Disease. The Importance of
Diagnosis
* 2: Fritz Stiefel, P. Guex, and O. Real del Sarte: Introduction:
Psychiatric Disorders in Cancer Patients
* 3: Maryfrances R. Porter, Dominique L. Musselman, J. Stephen
McDaniel, and Charles B. Nemeroff: Focus: From Sadness to Major
Depression: Assessment and Management in Patients with Cancer
* 4: Steven D. Passik and Jennifer L. Hay: Focus: Symptom Control in
Patients with Severe Character Pathology
* Section 4: Skin Disorders and Their Management
* 1: Eduardo Bruera: Editor's Note: Medical and Psychosocial
Implications of Skin Disorders
* 2: Peter Lloyd Hale and Terence J. Ryan: Introduction: Palliative
Care and the Clinical Approach to Disorders of the Skin
* 3: Paul Walker: Focus: Pathophysiology and Management of Pressure
Ulcer
* 4: Richard S. Tunkel and Phyllis Matcovich: Focus: Lymphedema:
Current Treatments and Controversies