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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Abrahm, J. (Janet) (Auteur), Collins, Molly E., 1980- (Auteur), Daubman, Bethany-Rose, 1985- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Édition:4th edition
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.