| Description |
x, 285 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Getting started -- Setting the scene and starting the interview -- Helping the person to share their problems -- Answering difficult questions -- Breaking difficult news -- Helping the person with the effects of difficult news -- Identifying distress in the person with severe communication difficulty -- Managing pain -- Diagnosing and treating pain -- Choosing an analgesic -- Using opioids -- Managing the adverse effects of analgesics -- Other physical symptoms -- Ascites -- Bleeding -- Bowel obstruction -- Constipation -- Diarrhoea -- Dyspepsia -- Dysphagia -- Fatigue, drowsiness, lethargy and weakness -- Malignant ulcers and fistulae -- Nausea and vomiting -- Nutrition and hydration problems -- Oederna and lymphoedema -- Oral problems -- Respiratory problems -- Skin problems -- Terminal phase (the last hours and days) -- Urinary and sexual problems -- Psychological symptoms -- Anger -- Anxiety -- Confusional states (delirium and dementia) -- Withdrawal and depression -- Difficult decisions -- Making ethical choices -- Decisions around competency -- Issues around resuscitation -- Emergencies -- Adrenocortical insufficiency -- Agitation -- Air hunger -- Anaphylaxis -- Asthma -- Breathlessness -- Bronchospasm -- Cardiac arrest -- Chest pain -- Diabetes mellitus -- DIC -- Drug toxicity -- Fracture -- Haemorrhage -- Heart failure -- Hypercalcaemia -- Hyperglycaemia -- Hyperviscosity -- Hypoglycaemia -- Hypotension -- Magnesium deficiency -- Neutropaenia -- Pain -- Pleural effusion -- Pleutritic pain -- Peritonitis -- Raised IC pressure -- Respiratory arrest -- Seizures -- SIADH -- Spinal cord compression -- Stridor -- Tumor lysis syndrome -- Vena caval obstruction -- Drug information -- Drug interactions -- Drugs in palliative care for children: starting doses -- Using drugs out of license -- Alternative routes for drugs -- Problems with syringe pump infusions |
| Summary |
"Doctors, nurses and all healthcare professionals dealing with patients with advanced and terminal disease will find this book essential reading."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed. published as: A guide to symptom relief in advanced disease by Claud F.B. Regnard and Sue Tempest. Hale: Hochland and Hochland, 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Palliative treatment -- Methods.
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Palliative treatment.
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Pain -- Treatment.
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Palliative Care -- methods.
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Terminal Care.
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Palliative Care.
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| Author |
Hockley, J. M.
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Regnard, Claud F. B.
Guide to symptom relief in advanced disease
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| ISBN |
1857759303 paperback |
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