End-of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition (MEDICAL/DENISTRY) - Softcover

Kinzbrunner, Barry M.; Policzer, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071545271 ISBN 13: 9780071545273

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical, 2011

Synopsis

This is the most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care. "The study/learning questions at the end of each chapter make this book an excellent resource for both faculty who wish to test knowledge, and individual learners who wish to assess their own learning...The book is well written and easy to read. 3 Stars". (Doody's Review Service). "End of Life Care: A Practical Guide" offers solution-oriented coverage of the real-world issues and challenges that arise daily for clinicians caring for those with life-limiting illnesses and conditions. "End of Life Care: A Practical Guide" includes specific clinical guidance for pain management and other common end of life symptoms. The second edition has been made even more essential with the addition of chapter-ending Q&A for self assessment and board review, new coverage of multicultural medicine, an increased number of algorithms to assist decision making on complicated clinical, legal, and ethical issues. Six sections walk you through the complexities of caring for patients who are nearing the end of life: Preparing Patients for End of Life; Management of Symptoms; Diagnostic and Invasive Interventions; Ethical Dilemmas; Special Populations; and, Diversity. No other text better assists physicians and other clinicians in providing patients near the end of life with support, guidance, and hope in the face of "hopelessness" than "End of Life Care: A Practical Guide".

About this title

Book Description:

This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life

From the Back Cover:

This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life
* Guidance on timing: when is end-of-life care needed?
* Breaking bad news: how to inform the patient
* Useful, current, guidelines on the treatment of pain, dyspnea, skin and mucus membrane problems, gastrointestinal conditions, and other common symptoms near the end of life
* In-depth discussion of end-of-life controversies, including advance directives and resuscitation, nutritional support and parenteral hydration, and physician-assisted suicide
* How to assess quality of life near its end
* Practical help with end-of-life care for special groups, such as HIV and pediatric patients
* Guidance on bereavement, depression, and other psychosocial and spiritual issues at the end of life
* Suggestions on benefiting from interdisciplinary teamwork
* What every clinician needs to know about the last days of the actively dying

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0071545271
• ISBN 13: 9780071545273
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 880