Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer /

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This new edition features three new chapters--'Spiritual Care in Palliative Care,''Psychological Considerations,'and'Bereavement'--as well as specific guidelines about • advance care planning at all phases of cancer• understanding complex family dynamics and communicati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abrahm, J. (Janet) (Author), Collins, Molly E., 1980- (Author), Daubman, Bethany-Rose, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Edition:4th edition
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pain > Treatment.
Cancer > Palliative treatment.
Pain.
Palliative Care.
Neoplasms.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Team approach. Early days ; Working with patients' families ; Spirtual care in palliative care ; Sexuality, intimacy, and cancer ; Advancing disease
  • Part II. Pain control, symptom management, and psychological considerations. Assessing the patient in pain ; Pharmacologic management of cancer pain ; Nonpharmacologic strategies in palliative care ; Psychological considerations ; Managing other distressing problems
  • Part III. End of life and bereavement. Approaching the end: concerns of patients and their families at the end of life ; The last days ; Bereavement.

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