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Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer / Janet L. Abrahm, Bethany-Rose Daubman, and Molly Collins, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Palliative treatment.
- Cancer.
- Pain--Treatment.
- Pain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (629 pages)
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- 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 communication challenges• partnering with interpreters in the care of patients and family members with limited English-language proficiency• special considerations to take into account for LGBTQ+ patients and their loved ones• caring for patients who have a serious mental illness along with a cancer diagnosis• nonpharmacologic management of pain and other symptoms associated with cancer or its treatment.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- "Previous editions of this work were published as A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients, by Janet L. Abrahm, MD."--Title page verso.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Abrahm, Janet L. Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer
- ISBN:
- 9781421443904
- 1421443902
- OCLC:
- 1334890831
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