Living with Dying

A Guide to Palliative Care
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-262514-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 76 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 116 g

The new edition of this successful book has been up-dated to incorporate recent advances in both approach to, and treatment of, the terminally ill. Based on many years of monitoring clinical practice and research at St Christopher's Hospice, Dame Cicely Saunders presents practical, balanced advice on the general ethical and medical principles of caring for dying patients. This will continue to be an invaluable handbook for all hospice physicians and nurses as a compassionate source of factual information.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, Cicely

Baines, Mary

Dunlop, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete AINS Schmerzmedizin & Schmerztherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Palliativpflege, Sterbebegleitung, Hospiz
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Principles of palliative care

- 2: Terminal pain

- 3: The use of analgesics

- 4: Adjuvant therapy in pain control

- 5: Control of symptoms other than pain

- 6: Other components of total pain

- References

- Further reading

- Index.