Print Price: $91.50

Format:
Hardback
304 pp.

ISBN-13:
9780195132199

Publication date:
February 2000

Imprint: OUP US

Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 4

Edited by Russell K. Portenoy and Eduardo Bruera

Series : Topics in Palliative Care Series

This is the fourth book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. This rapidly evolving field focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. To highlight the diversity in this field, each volume is divided into sections that address a range of issues. Various sections discuss aspects of symptom control, psyshosocial functioning, spiritual or existential concerns, ethics, and other topics. The 4 sections in this volume are Survial Estimation in Palliative Care, Education and Training in Palliative Care, Procoagulant and Anticoagulant Therapy in Palliative Care, and Issues in the Assessment and Management of Common Symptoms. The authors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from both the clinic and research, and integrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable.

Reviews

• "The authors present and evaluate data, provide a context drawn from both the clinical and research laboratory, and integrate knowledge in a practical and reliable manner."--Annals, March 2001
• "This volume, in fact the entire series, is an essential addition to the library of all palliative care clinicians. In this volume cogent analyses of the rapidly expanding body of literature are provided, with practical translation for clinical practice. Furthermore, the frequency of publication ensures the immediacy of the information. As with any publication, a few limitations exist. First, additional figures would clarify more complex concepts. Second, the emphasis in this volume remains primarily on cancer, but expanding the disease focus to other incurable illnesses is critical. Finally, future volumes might benefit from the inclusion of a table of contents of previous volumes, as well as a list of future topics planned for inclusion. Notwithstanding these suggestions, this book is indispensable for any palliative care physician." --Doody's
• "The editors succeeded in including leaders in the fields, and the book offers diverse perspectives and beliefs about palliative care. There are some important strengths, precisely for the reasons we expected: the editors' understanding of where the field has been, its current struggles, and where we will go. This book provides insight to how we will get there.--Respiratory Care, May 2002

I Survival Estimation in Palliative Care
1. Marco Maltoni, Oriana Nanni, Emanuela Scarpi, Morco Pirovano, and Dino Amadori: Model for Estimation of Survival in Patients with Far-Advanced Cancer
2. Victor T. Chang: The Value of Symptoms in Prognosis of Cancer Patients
3. Ronald S. schonwetter and Chirag R. Jani: Survival Estimation in Noncancer Patients with Advanced Disease
4. Gary S Fischer, James A. Tulsky, and Robert M. Arnold: Communicating a Poor Prognosis
II Education and Training in Palliative Care
5. Irene J. Higginson and Julie Hearn: Palliative Care audit: Tools, Objectives, and Models for training in Assessment, Monitoring, and Review
6. David E. Weissman: Cancer pain as a Model for the Training of Physicians in Palliative Care
7. J. Cameron Muir and Charles F. von Gunten: The Palliative Care Unit as a Focus for Professional Education
8. Janet L. Abrahm: The Palliative Care Consultation Team as a Model for Palliative Care Education
III Procoagulant and Anticoagulant Therapy in Palliative Care
9. Jose Pereira, Isabelle Mancini, and Eduardo Bruera: The Management of Bleeding in Advanced Cancer Patients
10. Grahm F. Pineo and Russell D. Hull: The Use of Heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparin, and Oral Anticoagulants in the Management of Thromboembolic Disease
11. Mark N. Levine: Prophylactic Anticogulant Therapy in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient
IV Issues in the Assessment and Management of Common Symptoms
12. Stuart L. Du Pen and Anna R. Du Pen: Intraspinal Analgesic Therapy in Palliative Care: Evolving Perspective
13. Deborah J. Dudgeon and Susan Rosenthal: Pathophysiology and Assessment of Dyspnea in the Patient with Cancer
14. Sharon Watanabe: The Role of Oxygen in Cancer-Related Dyspnea
15. Robin L. Fainsinger: Treatment of Delirium at the End of Life: Medical and Ethical Issues
Index

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Russell Portenoy is at Beth Israel Medical Center, NY. Eduardo Bruera is at Grey Nuns Community Health Center and the Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, currently Director, Dept. of Symptom Control and Palliative Care, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

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