Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care

4. Revised Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-894457-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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The fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Medicine remains the definitive, pocket-sized guide for every healthcare professional committed to providing exemplary care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. This handbook is designed to empower its readers, both specialists and generalists, with the knowledge and confidence to alleviate suffering, manage complex symptoms, and honour the unique worth and dignity of every individual and their family.

Fully revised and updated, this edition integrates the very latest evidence-based guidance and clinical practices from around the world. It uniquely continues to feature all ages from paediatric to adult, all populations with a new and expanded population-based end of life care, international sections and humanitarian sections. It features significant new content and restructure for easy quick access based upon systems and symptoms. The handbook also strengthens its vital coverage of wider care, with enhanced sections on sophisticated communication skills, spiritual and psychological distress, and supporting caregivers and the bereaved.

Practical, authoritative, and profoundly compassionate, this handbook is an essential resource for all members of the multidisciplinary team. If you look after anyone who has died, this book is for you. It is meticulously structured for rapid access to information at the point of care, ensuring clinicians can focus on what matters most: enabling patients to live as fully and comfortably as possible, through to the very end of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Max

Weitere Mitwirkende

Doré, Matthew

Armstrong, Peter

Campbell, Rachel

Vialls, Kate

Vallath, Nandini

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1.: Ethical issues

- 2.: Communication

- 3.: Principles of medications

- 4.: Pain

- 5.: Gastrointestinal

- 6.: Respiratory

- 7.: Cardiology

- 8.: Renal

- 9.: Hepatic

- 10.: Neurology

- 11.: Genitourinal

- 12.: Skin

- 13.: Frailty and dementira

- 14.: Oncology

- 15.: Haematology

- 16.: Head and neck

- 17.: Endocrine and metabolic complications

- 18.: HIV and immunology

- 19.: Paediatric palliative care

- 20.: Transitional care

- 21.: Psychiatry

- 22.: Spiritual care

- 23.: Allied health professionals

- 24.: Complementary and alternative medicines (integrative medicine)

- 25.: Self-care for health professionals

- 26.: Learning difficulties

- 27.: Population-based end of life care

- 28.: Future planning

- 29.: Access to palliative care: international perspectives

- 30.: Palliative care humanitarian crisis

- 31.: Equality, diversity and inclusivity

- 32.: Research

- 33.: Governance in palliative care

- 34.: Media and palliative care

- 35.: Arificial intelligence

- 36.: Emergencies in palliative care

- 37.: The terminal phase

- 38.: Bereavement

- 39.: Bereavement reflection

- 40.: Miscellaneous

Über Autor(innen)

Graduated from Aberdeen Medical School, initially pursuing renal and immunology, Matthew Doré found his love in Palliative Medicine and his Northern Irish wife. He loves to learn and teach exemplified as past chair of the Palliative Care Congress, teaching in the Hospice UK/APM monthly Clinical ECHO and podcast and his many publications both in journals (BMJ, BMJSPC, UMJ) and media (BBC, Telegraph, Times). He has worked as Honorary secretary of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland and spoken at Westminster and the Dail regarding palliative care provision. He loves ethics, literature, whiskey and his ever-patient family.

Dr Rachel Campbell is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine based in the South Eastern Trust in Northern Ireland working within Hospital and Community Services. She has a specialist interest in heart failure and along with cardiology colleagues has developed a Supportive Heart Failure to support those living with the disease.

Kate Vialls trained as an RN in Norwich, UK, 37 years ago and has over 20 years of palliative care experience in Adelaide, South Australia, across hospice, liaison, and community settings. With the support of her husband and two gorgeous sons she is now a Nurse Practitioner, currently supporting GPs and Residential Aged Care staff to provide equitable, compassionate end-of-life care. She also works as a volunteer internationally with Flinders Overseas Health Group (FOHG), mentoring health professionals in West Timor to grow and strengthen palliative care in underserved communities. Outside of work, Kate enjoys South Australia's many wineries