9781523465880-1523465883-Hospice and Palliative Medicine Handbook: A Clinical Guide

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Handbook: A Clinical Guide

ISBN-13: 9781523465880
ISBN-10: 1523465883
Edition: 1
Author: Susan Bodtke MD, Kathy Ligon MD
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback 320 pages
Category: Medicine
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ISBN-13: 9781523465880
ISBN-10: 1523465883
Edition: 1
Author: Susan Bodtke MD, Kathy Ligon MD
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback 320 pages
Category: Medicine

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Hospice and Palliative Medicine Handbook: A Clinical Guide (ISBN-13: 9781523465880 and ISBN-10: 1523465883), written by authors Susan Bodtke MD, Kathy Ligon MD, was published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Medicine books. You can easily purchase or rent Hospice and Palliative Medicine Handbook: A Clinical Guide (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Medicine books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $15.65.

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This comprehensive pocket-size handbook is the essential reference for clinicians and others serving patients with advanced or life-limiting illness. It offers up-to-date, relevant, and highly practical guidance to expertly meet the challenges of serving these patients and their families.

This user-friendly manual emphasizes the importance of honoring patients’ wishes throughout their medical journey while meeting their whole-person, often complex needs—from symptom management to attending to spiritual and emotional suffering—and always acknowledges the context of patients’ lives, including the needs of loved ones supporting them.

The layout makes finding information quick and easy, with alphabetically organized chapter headings and a detailed index. Organ-system-based chapters offer disease-specific, goals-of-care discussion guidance and reviews of etiology, signs and symptoms, assessment, and management—including standard treatment as well as palliative options.

Other chapters cover communication with patients and families, consultation with colleagues, and code status discussions, along with valuable subjects such as withdrawing life support, ethics, spirituality, physician-assisted death, and palliative options of last resort.

Readers will find practical management strategies for symptoms such as pain, nausea, dyspnea, and delirium. In addition, chapters on opioid use and dosing, and pharmacology of commonly used palliative medications, make this guide an invaluable resource.

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