Palliative Medicine

Description

• Indispensable guide for health workers
• Clear, concise and comprehensive overview of palliative care
• Chapter summaries and further reading lists are provided
• Complements the Oxford range of palliative care texts
• Draws on evidence from randomised clinical trials, particularly the Cochrane reviews

In this thoroughly revised fourth edition of Palliative Medicine, Roger Woodruff draws on recent research and new developments in treatment to survey the principles of palliative care and related ethical issues. The primary focus is on the management and treatment of pain and other symptoms experienced by patients with advanced cancer. The author contributes to the delivery of better care to more patients with a terminal illness, through thorough analysis and application of methods of pain relief and treatment of other symptoms in the terminally ill patient. All the work is firmly grounded in an evidence based approach and is thoroughly referenced to the latest research in the area.

Readership: The book is intended for medical students, residents, registrars, oncologists, GPs and nurses, both in Australia and internationally

Contents

• Section One: An Introduction to Palliative Care
  1 Palliative care
  2 Principles of palliative care
  3 Ethics in palliative care
• Section Two: Pain
  4 Pain
  5 Factors that modify the perception of pain
  6 Assessment of pain
  7 Principles of treatment
  8 Non-opioid analgesics
  9 Opioid analgesics
  10 Morphine
  11 Other opioid analgesics
  12 Neuroaxial opioid therapy
  13 Adjuvant analgesics
  14 Anaesthetic, neurolytic and neurosurgical procedures
  15 Physical therapies
  16 Psychological and psychosocial aspects of pain control
  17 Anticancer therapy
• Section Three: Other Physical Symptoms and Clinical Problems
  18 Respiratory
  19 Gastrointestinal
  20 Genitourinary
  21 Cardiovascular
  22 Haematological
  23 Musculoskeletal
  24 Dermatological
  25 Neurological
  26 Psychiatric
  27 Endocrine/Metabolic
  28 Constitutional
  29 Adverse effects of anticancer therapy
• Section Four: Psychosocial Aspects of Care
  30 Psychological issues
  31 Social problems
  32 Cultural factors
  33 Spiritual or existential concerns
  34 Grief and bereavement
• Section Five: Complementary and Alternative Therapies
  35 Complementary and alternative medicines