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Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • 2 Edición - 12 de diciembre de 2006
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Kim K. Kuebler, Debra E. Heidrich, Peg Esper
  • Idioma: Inglés

Palliative and End-of-Life Care, 2nd Edition provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting… Leer más

Descripción

Palliative and End-of-Life Care, 2nd Edition provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness. This text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory, extending from diagnosis of advanced disease until death. Four units provide the general principles of palliative and end-of-life care, important concepts, advanced disease management, and clinical practice guidelines. Clinical practice guidelines offer in-depth discussions of the pathophysiology of 19 different symptoms, interventions for specific symptom management (including in-depth rationales), and suggestions for patient and family teaching.

Puntos claves

  • Defines dying as a normal, healthy process aided by the support of an interdisciplinary team.
  • Provides in-depth pathophysiology, assessment, and intervention information based upon the disease trajectory.
  • Highlights opportunities for patient and family teaching.
  • Describes psychosocial issues experienced by patients and their families.
  • Reviews uncomplicated and complicated grief and mourning, providing suggestions to help the family after a patient's death.
  • Includes case studies at the end of chapters to reinforce key concepts of compassionate care.

Índice

General Principles in Palliative and End-of-Life Care


1. The Advanced Practice Nurse in Palliative Care


2. Palliative and End-of-Life Care


3. The Dying Process

Important Concepts in Palliative and End-of-Life Care


4. Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision Making


5. Ethical Issues Surrounding Advanced Disease


6. Spiritual Care Across Cultures


7. Pharmacology


8. Sleep


9. Nutrition

Advanced Disease Management


10. Cardiovascular Disease


11. Pulmonary Disease


12. Hepatic Disease


13. Chronic Kidney Disease


14. Neurological Disease


15. Malignancies


16. HIV/AIDS

Clinical Practice Guidelines


17. Anxiety


18. Ascites


19. Bowel Obstruction


20. Cachexia and Anorexia


21. Constipation


22. Cough


23. Dehydration


24. Delirium/Acute Confusion


25. Depression


26. Diarrhea


27. Dyspnea


28. Fatigue


29. Hiccups


30. Lymphedema


31. Nausea and Vomiting


32. Pain


33. Palliative Care Emergencies


34. Pruritis


35. Ulcerative Lesions


Appendices


36. Caregiver Resources


37. Assessment Tools

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 2
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 12 de diciembre de 2006
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

KK

Kim K. Kuebler

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Adult Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care/Oncology/Palliative Care Private Practice, Adjuvant Therapies, Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA

DH

Debra E. Heidrich

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Palliative Nurse Clinician, Bethesda North Hospital, TriHealth Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA

PE

Peg Esper

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Nurse Practitioner, Medical Oncology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA