Principles and practice of palliative care and supportive oncology /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Difficult pain syndromes: neuropathic pain, bone pain, and visceral pain
- Opioid pharmacotherapy
- Nonpharmacologic management of pain
- Interventional approaches to pain
- Pathology of bone metastases-implications for treatment
- Pathophysiology of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
- Cancer-related fatigue
- Fever and sweats
- Hot flashes
- Anorexia/weight loss
- Dysphagia/speech rehabilitation in palliative care
- Chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting and treatment-related nausea and vomiting
- Assessment of management of chronic nausea and vomiting
- Diarrhea, malabsorption, and constipation
- Bowel obstruction
- Diagnosis and management of effusions
- Hiccups and other gastrointestinal symptoms
- Biology of treatment-induced mucositis
- Oral manifestations and complications of cancer therapy
- Approach to liver metastases in palliative oncology
- Palliative endoscope procedures
- Palliative interventional radiologic procedures
- Pruritus
- Treatment of tumor-related skin disorders
- Dermatologic adverse events during treatment
- Management of pressure ulcers and fungating wounds
- Lymphedema
- Principles of fistula and stoma management
- Dyspnea in the cancer patient
- Hemoptysis, airway obstruction, bronchospasm, cough, and pulmonary complications/symptoms of cancer and its treatment
- Prevention, assessment, and management of treatment-induced cardiac disease in cancer patients
- Management of hypercoagulable states and coagulopathy
- Urologic issues in palliative care
- Impact of hepatic and renal dysfunction on pharmacology of palliative care drugs
- Hypercalcemia
- Metabolic disorders in the cancer patient
- Infectious complications/management
- Management of intracranial metastases
- Management of spinal cord and cauda equina compression
- Recognizing and managing delirium
- Treating depression at the end of life
- Anxiety
- Cognitive decline following cancer treatment
- Substance-abuse issues in palliative care
- Epidemiology and prognostication in advanced cancer
- Hospice
- Cultural issues
- Communication during transitions of care
- The family meetings
- Psychosocial consequences of advanced cancer
- Disorders of sexuality and reproduction
- Caregiving in the home
- Management of symptoms in the actively dying patient
- Spirituality
- Bereavement care
- Staff stress and burnout
- Advance directives, decision making, and withholding and withdrawing treatment
- Palliative care: ethics and the law
- Hematologic support of the cancer patient
- Issues in nutrition and hydration
- Complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies in oncology
- Geriatric palliative care
- Palliative care in pediatrics
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and supportive care
- Long-term survivorship: late effects
- Survivorship issues in adults
- Outcomes assessment in palliative care
- Measurement of quality of life outcomes
- Research issues: ethics and study design.