A concise and practical guide to caring for children with life-limiting conditions, 'Paediatric Palliative Medicine' covers the common symptoms and challenging issues healthcare professionals are likely to encounter, and includes a detailed drug formulary for quick reference.
Revised throughout with an additional emphasis on nursing care, this handbook is a concise and authoritative guide to modern palliative care. An ideal resource for the busy professional management of patients with end of life care needs.
Essentials of Palliative Care is a to-the-point, clinically oriented resource for all members of the multidisciplinary palliative care team and trainees. It covers practical clinical topics, including assessment of the patient and pain and symptom management, and practical non-medical topics central to providing effective palliative care, including psychological management, guidance on how to help patients and their families through the many healthcare decision points they face, and sensitivity to the goals and culture of the patient. Review questions, with detailed answers, provide a convenient way for readers to test their knowledge. Features: · Concise, comprehensive, clinically focused · Multiple choice review questions, with detailed answers · Expert contributors from leading institutions · Coordination of care by palliative care team a major focus
This book serves as a valuable reference source, providing a comprehensive review of syringe driver use and administration of drugs via CSCI, a safe and effective way of drug administration when other routes are inappropriate.
Developed from the author's training programme that is used in many countries around the world, this manual is designed for professionals working with the terminally ill. The book covers the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of care.
Pediatric palliative care is a field of significant growth as health care systems recognize the benefits of palliative care in areas such as neonatal intensive care, pediatric ICU, and chronic pediatric illnesses. Pediatric Palliative Care, the fourth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, highlights key issues related to the field. Chapters address pediatric hospice, symptom management, pediatric pain, the neonatal intensive care unit, transitioning goals of care between the emergency department and intensive care unit, and grief and bereavement in pediatric palliative care. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice. Plentiful tables and patient teaching points make these volumes useful resources for nurses.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference provides unbiased and evaluated information on drugs and medicines in use around the world. It is prepared by an experienced team of pharmacists and life scientists who use their professional expertise to select the most clinically relevant and appropriate information from reliable published sources.
Section 1: Palliative Care What is Palliative Care? (H Y Wu); Section 2: Symptoms Bone Pain (A Hum); Brain Metastasis (M Dalisay-Gallardo); Cancer Pain (R Lee); Constipation (R Chen); Delirium (S L Ang); Diarrhoea (S L Ang); Dyspnea (S L Ang); Hiccups (M Dalisay-Gallardo); Malignant Ascites (X Heng); Nausea and Vomiting (X Heng); Oral Thrush (S C Chia); Pruritus (X Heng); Section 3: End Organ Disease End-Stage Heart Failure (C H Aw); End-Stage Renal Failure (J Guan); End-Stage Lung Disease (Z-Y Chiam); End Stage Liver Disease (J Lau); Dementia and Frailty (W Y Goh); Paediatric Palliative Care (P H Chong); Section 4: Terminal Symptoms Nutrition and Hydration (M Y Chau); Palliative Sedation (C H Poi); Terminal Secretions/Rattling (M Y Chau); Section 5: Palliative Care Emergencies Acute Pain Crisis (R Lee); Airway Obstruction (Stridor) (C M Lee); Bleeding (J Ong); Hypercalcemia (C S Lee); Seizures (J Ong); Malignant Spinal Cord Compression (C M Yee); Superior Vena Cava Obstruction (C S Lee); Venous Thromboembolism (A Hum); Section 6: Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care Anxiety (Y X Kwan); Depression (W P Lim); Grief and Bereavement (Y X Kwan); Spiritual Care (T Yung); Section 7: Communication Breaking Bad News (M Koh); Goals of Care Discussions (M Koh); Advance Care Planning (R Ng); An Approach to Ethical Case Analysis in Palliative Care (H Y Neo); Section 8: Community Services Community Palliative Care Services (G S Chia); Section 9: Opioids and Adjuvant Analgesics Codeine (S C Chia); Fentanyl (R Lee); Ketamine (M T Provido); Methadone (M T Provido); Morphine (H K Lee); Oxycodone (H K Lee); Tramadol (S C Chia); Lignocaine (S C Chia); Section 10: Practical Issues in Palliative Care Opioid Conversion Chart (C Tan); Continuous Subcutaneous Infusion Drug Chart; Hypodermoclysis (C Tan); Drug Compatibility (H K Lee et al.); Terminal Discharge (W Ong); Opioid Toxicity (A Hum); Palliative Care Drug Formulary (H K Lee et al.)