Topics in Palliative Care, Volume 3 - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0195102460 ISBN 13: 9780195102468

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1999

Riassunto

The third book in a series devoted to research and practice in palliative care. The four topics covered in this volume are Paediatric Palliative Care, The Management of Bone Pain, Psychopathology in Patients with Cancer, Skin Disorders and Their Management. The contributors present and evaluate existing data, provide a context drawn from both clinical and research settings, and integrate knowledge in a manner that is both practical and readable for palliative care specialists and hospice providers.

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Contenuti

• Section 1: Paediatric Palliative Care
• 1: Steven J. Weisman: Editor's Note: Pediatric Palliative Care: A Field in Evolution
• 2: John J. Collins: Focus: Pharmacologic Management of Pediatric Cancer Pain
• 3: Betty Davies and Rose Steele: Focus: Families in Pediatric Palliative Care
• 4: Marcia Levetown: Focus: Teatment of Symptoms Other than Pain in Pediatric Palliative Care
• Section 2: The Management of Bone Pain
• 1: Russell K. Portenoy: Editor's Note: Bone Pain: Defining the Need for New Approaches
• 2: Jose Pereira: Introduction: The Management of Bone Pain
• 3: D. Scott Ernst: Focus: The Role of Biphosphonates and Other Bone Resorption Inhibitors in Metastatic Bone Pain
• 4: Frank J. Frassica, Deborah Anne Frassica, Steven A. Lietman, Cameron A. Huckell, Edmund Y.S. Chao, and Franklin H. Sim: Focus: Surgical Palliation of Malignant Bone Pain
• Section 3: Psychopathology in Patients with Cancer
• 1: William Breitbart: Editor's Note: Psychiatric Disorders in Patients with Progressive Medical Disease. The Importance of Diagnosis
• 2: Fritz Stiefel, P. Guex, and O. Real del Sarte: Introduction: Psychiatric Disorders in Cancer Patients
• 3: Maryfrances R. Porter, Dominique L. Musselman, J. Stephen McDaniel, and Charles B. Nemeroff: Focus: From Sadness to Major Depression: Assessment and Management in Patients with Cancer
• 4: Steven D. Passik and Jennifer L. Hay: Focus: Symptom Control in Patients with Severe Character Pathology
• Section 4: Skin Disorders and Their Management
• 1: Eduardo Bruera: Editor's Note: Medical and Psychosocial Implications of Skin Disorders
• 2: Peter Lloyd Hale and Terence J. Ryan: Introduction: Palliative Care and the Clinical Approach to Disorders of the Skin
• 3: Paul Walker: Focus: Pathophysiology and Management of Pressure Ulcer
• 4: Richard S. Tunkel and Phyllis Matcovich: Focus: Lymphedema: Current Treatments and Controversies

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195102460
• ISBN 13: 9780195102468
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Redattore: Portenoy Russell K., Bruera Eduardo