Emergency Supportive and Palliative Care: A Comprehensive Guide

Author: David Currow

Publication Date: January 25, 2024

ISBN: 9780192898333, 9780192653352

Language: English

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Category: Medicine, Health Sciences, and Medicine

Subcategory: Emergency Medicine, Oncology, AIDS, and Organ Transplantation

Description:

This second edition of the book provides a practical, accessible guide to emergency situations encountered in the practice of supportive and palliative care. It is fully revised according to up-to-date clinical guidance and is designed for rapid use, addressing the immediate clinical challenges while more definitive measures are being put in place. The book is structured around frequently encountered symptoms and is split into two sections. The first section explores how patients with life-limiting illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, and end-stage organ failure normally present, and looks at the reversibility of their condition. The second section provides a detailed approach to specific clinical conditions, and is for use once the clinical diagnosis has been reached on the basis of the presenting symptoms. An improved order to the table of contents for this edition matches clinical practice.

Key Features:

– Provides trainees in palliative medicine, nurses, family doctors, and other allied health professionals with a pocket guide to the emergency care of people requiring supportive and palliative care.

– Outlines good clinical care for the last hours days of life when the diagnosis of dying has been actively made.

– Uses three categories (terminal, deteriorating, and stable) to consider how the patient’s needs are changing as their disease progresses.

– Complements and cross-refers to the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care.

Target Audience:

– Trainees in palliative medicine

– Nurses

– Family doctors

– Allied health professionals