Emanuel Palliative Care 2nd edition Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (Expert Consult Series)

Find out all you need to know about providing high-quality care to patients with serious illnesses from the 2nd edition of Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies. Drs. Linda L. Emanuel and S. Lawrence Librach, leaders in the field, address the clinical, physical, psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions that are integral to the care of the whole patient. They give you a broad understanding of the core clinical skills and competencies needed to effectively approach patient assessment, care of special populations, symptom control, ethical issues, and more. Clearly written in a user-friendly, high-yield format with convenient online access, this resource is your ultimate guidebook to the burgeoning practice of palliative medicine.

Key Features

• Improve your pain management and symptom management skills with a better understanding of best practices in palliative care.
• Quickly review specific treatment protocols for both malignant and non-malignant illnesses, including HIV/AIDS, heart failure, renal failure, pulmonary disease, and neurodegenerative disease.
• Better understand and manage the common and unique challenges associated with delivering palliative care in various social settings, such as the ICU, hospice, and the home; and to diverse populations, such as children, elders, and vulnerable members of society.

Website Features

• Consult the book from any computer at home, in your office, or at any practice location.
• Instantly locate the answers to your clinical questions via a simple search query.
• Quickly find out more about any bibliographical citation by linking to its MEDLINE abstract.

Contents

Section 1 - Palliative Care: Core Skills

Part A - General Foundations

• CHAPTER 1 - Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 2 - Comprehensive Assessment
• CHAPTER 3 - Communication Skills
• CHAPTER 4 - Negotiating Goals of Care
• CHAPTER 5 - “Who Knows?”

Part B - Physical and Psychological Symptoms

• CHAPTER 6 - Multiple Symptoms and Multiple Illnesses
• CHAPTER 7 - Pain
• CHAPTER 8 - Nausea and Vomiting
• CHAPTER 9 - Part A
• CHAPTER 10 - Depression and Anxiety
• CHAPTER 11 - Delirium
• CHAPTER 12 - Constipation
• CHAPTER 13 - Urinary Incontinence
• CHAPTER 14 - Sexuality
• CHAPTER 15 - Dyspnea
• CHAPTER 16 - Supporting the Family in Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 17 - Local Wound Care for Palliative and Malignant Wounds

Part C - Personal Contexts

• CHAPTER 18 - Loss, Bereavement, and Adaptation
• CHAPTER 19 - Understanding and Respecting Cultural Differences

Part D - Specific Situations and Skill Sets

• CHAPTER 20 - Advance Care Planning
• CHAPTER 21 - Responding to Requests for Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
• CHAPTER 22 - Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapies
• CHAPTER 23 - Last Hours of Living
• CHAPTER 24 - Legal and Ethical Issues in the United States

Section 2 - Specific Types of Illness and Sites of Care

• CHAPTER 25 - Hematology/Oncology
• CHAPTER 26 - HIV/AIDS
• CHAPTER 27 - Heart Failure and Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 28 - Kidney Failure
• CHAPTER 29 - Gastrointestinal Malignancies
• CHAPTER 30 - Neurodegenerative Diseases
• CHAPTER 31 - Principles of Palliative Surgery
• CHAPTER 32 - Dementia
• CHAPTER 33 - Pulmonary Palliative Medicine
• CHAPTER 34 - Pediatric Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 35 - Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
• CHAPTER 36 - Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 37 - Veterans, Veterans Administration Health Care, and Palliative Care

Section 3 - Service Delivery

• CHAPTER 38 - The Interdisciplinary Team
• CHAPTER 39 - Palliative Care Nursing
• CHAPTER 40 - Social Work Practice in Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 41 - Spiritual Care
• CHAPTER 42 - Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Settings
• CHAPTER 43 - Home Palliative Care
• CHAPTER 44 - Integrating Palliative Care Guidelines into Clinical Practice
• CHAPTER 45 - Palliative Care Services and Programs
• CHAPTER 46 - The Role of the Physician in Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Section 4 - The Social Context

• CHAPTER 47 - The Economic Burden of End-of-Life Illness
• CHAPTER 48 - Addressing the Social Suffering Associated with Illness
• CHAPTER 49 - Palliative Care in Developing Countries
• CHAPTER 50 - The Therapeutic Implications of Dignity in Palliative Care

APPENDIX 1: 

• Medication Tables
• Adverse Effects
• Websites/Online Drug Resources

APPENDIX 2: 

• Resources for Palliative and End-of-Life Care
• Guidelines for the Use of this List

Product Details

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (April 27, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1437716199
• ISBN-13: 978-1437716191

List Price: $69.95 

Meier: Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Series on Health Policy)

Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.

Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with a sweeping overview of the field. In her essay, Dr. Meier examines the roots of palliative care, explores the key legal and ethical issues, discusses the development of palliative care, and presents ideas on policies that can improve access to palliative care.

Dr. Meier's essay is followed by reprints of twenty-five of the most important articles in the field. They range from classic pieces by some of the field's pioneers, such as Eric Cassel, Balfour Mount, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, to influential newer articles on topics such as caregiving and cost savings of palliative care. The reprints cover a wide range of topics including:

• Why the care of the seriously ill is so important
• Efforts to cope with advanced illness
• Legal and ethical issues
• Pain management
• Cross-cultural issues
• Philosophical perspective

The demand for palliative care has been nothing short of stunning—largely because of palliative care's positive impact on both the quality and the cost of care provided to seriously ill individuals. By providing a wide-ranging perspective on this growing field, this book will serve as a guide for developing meaningful approaches that will lead to better health care for all Americans.

Contents

Part I Review of the Palliative Care Field

• 1. The Development, Status, and Future of Palliative Care

Part II Care of the Seriously Ill: Why Is It an Important Issue? Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life

• 3. Decisions Near the End of Life.

Part III Efforts to Cope with Death and Provide Care for the Dying.

• 4. Hope
• 5. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
• 6. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing
• 7. Death: “The Distinguished Thing”
• 8. The Philosophy of Terminal Care
• 9. Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers

Part IV Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues.

• 10. The Health Care Proxy and the Living Will (George J. Annas).
• 11. Terri Schiavo: A Tragedy Compounded (Timothy E. Quill).

Part V Research into End-of-Life Care.

• 12. A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT)
• 13. Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients, Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers
• 14. Use of Hospitals, Physician Visits, and Hospice Care During Last Six Months of Life Among Cohorts Loyal to Highly Respected Hospitals in the United States 
• 15. Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care

Part VI Palliative Care.

• 16. The Treatment of Cancer Pain 
• 17. Responding to Intractable Terminal Suffering: The Role of Terminal Sedation and Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids 
• 18. Response to Quill and Byock, “Responding to Intractable Suffering” 
• 19. Challenges in Palliative Care: Four Clinical Areas That Confront and Challenge Hospice Practitioners 
• 20. Outcomes from a National Multispecialty Palliative Care Curriculum Development Project 
• 21. Negotiating Cross-Cultural Issues at the End of Life: “You Got to Go Where He Lives”
• 22. Variability in Access to Hospital Palliative Care in the United States 
• 23. Do Palliative Care Consultations Improve Patient Outcomes ?
• 24. Cost Savings Associated with U.S. Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs 
• 25. The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver
• 26. Understanding Economic and Other Burdens of Terminal Illness: The Experience of Patients and Their Caregivers 

Part VII The Ends of Medicine and Society.

• 27. Finding Our Way: Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life 

The Editors.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

About the Authors

• Diane E. Meier, M.D., is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
• Stephen L. Isaacs, J.D., is a partner in Isaacs/Jellinek, a San Francisco-based consulting firm.
• Robert G. Hughes, Ph.D., is vice president and chief learning officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 29, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047052717X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470527177
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.1 inches

List Price: $75.00 

 

Davies: Cancer-related Bone Pain (Oxford Pain Management Library Series)

Cancer-related Bone Pain (Oxford Pain Management Library) by Andrew Davies summarises the latest evidence-based and practical information on the management of cancer-related bone pain. Chapters cover the pathophysiology and clinical features of bone pain, general principles of management and the use of opioids and other agents. It will be an invaluable reference for all health care professionals involved in the management of patients with bone pain from various disciplines including palliative care, anaesthetics, oncology and general practice.

Key Features

• Pocket-sized evidence-based practical guide to the management of cancer-related bone pain.
• Comprehensive coverage of current treatment options, including chapters on general principles of management, and the use of opioids and other agents.
• Summarizes up-to-date research literature in a style that has direct clinical application for busy healthcare professionals.
• Includes numerous tables, figures and algorithms to facilitate ease of use.

Contents 

• 1: Andrew Davies & Joanna Vriens: Introduction
• 2: Catherine Urch: Pathophysiology of bone pain
• 3: Marie Fallon & Sandra McConnell: Clinical features of bone pain
• 4: Andrew Davies: General principles of management
• 5: David McVicar & James Crawshaw: Radiology
• 6: John Zeppetella: Conventional analgesics for bone pain
• 7: Rebecca Wong: Bisphosphonates for bone pain
• 8: Nicholas Van As & Robert Huddart: Radiotherapy
• 9: Paul Farquhar-Smith: Anaesthetic techniques
• 10: Timothy Briggs & Wisam Al-Hakim: Orthopaedic techniques

About the Author

• Dr Andrew Davies is Consultant in Palliative Medicine. His main clinical and research interests are symptom control, particularly the management of pain and oral problems.

Book Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
  
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (February 15, 2008)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 0199215731
  
• ISBN-13: 9780199215737
  
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 3.9 x 0.4 inches
  

List Price: $24.95