Download or read book Surgical Palliative Care written by Anne C. Mosenthal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative care has become increasingly important across the spectrum of healthcare, and with it, the need for education and training of a broad range of medical practitioners not previously associated with this field of care. Part of the Integrating Palliative Care series, this volume on surgical palliative care guides readers through the core palliative skills and knowledge needed to deliver high value care for patients with life-limiting, critical, and terminal illness under surgical care. Chapters explore the historical, philosophical, and spiritual principles of surgical palliative care, and follow the progression of the seriously ill surgical patient's journey from the pre-operative encounter, to the invasive procedure, to the post-operative setting, and on to survivorship. An overview of the future of surgical palliative care education and research rounds out the text. Surgical Palliative Care is an ideal resource for surgeons, surgical nurses, intensivists, and other practitioners who wish to learn more about integrating palliative care into the surgical field.
Download or read book Palliative Surgery written by Matthias W. Wichmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative surgery can greatly contribute to improving symptom control and quality of life for terminal cancer patients. Owing to the advanced stage of the disease, however, this type of surgery is also associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important for surgeons to have a sound understanding of the medical and scientific background underlying treatment decisions in palliative surgery, a foundation that this book provides. The opening chapters examine the relationship between palliative medicine and palliative surgery and address general issues including pain management and anesthesiological considerations. The role of palliative surgery in a wide range of disease settings is then thoroughly explored, including detailed information on surgical techniques and their indications and outcomes. This book will be an invaluable resource for all who wish to learn more about the emerging role of palliative surgery.
Download or read book Surgical Palliative Care written by Geoffrey P. Dunn and published by Supportive Care. This book was released on 2004 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surgical Palliative Care describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive to be useful in palliation and clinicians instinctively turn to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and other drugs. Surgery, withincreasingly minimal access techniques, may be simpler and less invasive than other treatments and produces excellent palliation. Indeed, most types of surgery are not curative and the aim of this book is to alert all concerned with palliative care to the usefulness and appropriateness of a surgicaloption. The text is divided into two sections; the first dealing with general issues, varying from quality of life measurement to spirituality, and the second illustrating their application in different specialties of surgery ranging from neurosurgery to urology. The book ends with a challenge to surgeonsto change their perspective from curative surgery, in terms of simply cure or failure, to improvement in quality of life and relief of symptoms. Aimed primarily at palliative medicine and pain consultants, this book will also appeal to surgeons who increasingly need to know more about palliativecare.
Download or read book Practicing Primary Palliative Care An Issue of Surgical Clinics written by Pringl Miller and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Practicing Primary Palliative Care and is edited by Dr. Pringl Miller. Articles will include: Advantages of a Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Surgical Care; Concurrent Palliative Care has Clinical Outcome Benefits; Goals of Care Discussions - Understanding the Outcomes that Matter Most; Prognostic Tools and Shared Decision Making; Peri-Operative Advance Directives - DNR in the OR; Optimizing Pain Control During the Opioid Epidemic; Wound and Stoma Care - Less is More; Image-Guided Palliative Interventions; Palliative Care and the Pregnant Surgical Patient; Tracheostomies, PEGs, and Hemodialysis Vascular Access - When Are They Really Indicated?; Post-Operative Recovery & Survivorship after Acute Hospitalization for Serious Life Limiting Illness; Spiritual Dimensions of Surgical Palliative Care; Transitioning to Comfort-Focused Care at the End-of-Life; Mitigating Burnout; Surgical Palliative Care Education; and more!
Download or read book Surgical Palliative Care and Pain Management An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics E Book written by Geoffrey Dunn and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics brings the reader up to date on the most important advances in surgical palliative care for anesthesiology intensivists. Topics covered include recent trends and developments, palliative care of patients on high doses of narcotics, trauma in the surgical ICU, care of family in the surgical ICU, communication skills in palliative surgery, surgical palliative care in Haiti, and much more.
Download or read book Evidence Based Practice in Perioperative Cardiac Anesthesia and Surgery written by Davy C.H. Cheng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive yet concise book addresses current best practice in the combined areas of cardiac surgery and anesthesia, interventional minimally invasive cardiac procedures, perioperative management and monitoring, and critical care recovery. This book not only provides the latest best practices in the perioperative management of cardiac surgical patients, but also it summarizes the current clinical guidelines and algorithms from leading cardiac programs and professional societies. Contemporary best practice approaches are written by experts from leading cardiac surgical centers. The preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative management and recovery of surgical patients, including medication, monitoring techniques, and innovative surgical procedures, are presented by experts in the field of cardiac anesthesia and surgery. Perioperative clinical care guidelines, postoperative recovery pathways and models of care are presented with supporting protocols. Evidence-Based Practice in Perioperative Cardiac Anesthesia and Surgery is aimed at all cardiac anesthesiology consultants, fellows, and trainees; all cardiac surgery consultants, fellows, and trainees; nurses in perioperative care and those involved in patient recovery management; cardiac program administrative professionals; and all critical care consultants and trainees looking after cardiovascular surgical patients in the modern era.
Download or read book Palliative Care in Surgical Oncology An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America E Book written by Bridget N. Fahy and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Bridget N. Fahy, is devoted to Palliative Care in Surgical Oncology. Dr. Fahy has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Current guidelines for integration of palliative care in oncology; Management of malignant bowel obstruction; Management of peritoneal carcinomatosis & malignant ascites; Artificial nutrition in patients with advanced malignancy; Selecting patients for palliative procedures in oncology; Palliative radiotherapy: Indications and outcomes; Ethical considerations for caring for patients with advanced cancer; Evaluation and management of malignant biliary obstruction; Systemic anti-cancer treatments for advanced cancer patients: What a surgical oncologist needs to know; Role of palliative medicine training in surgical oncology; Navigating difficult conversations: Breaking bad news and exploring goals of care in surgical patients; Strategies for optimizing perioperative pain management for the cancer patient; and more!
Download or read book Update on Surgical Palliative Care written by Geoffrey P. Dunn and published by Clinics: Surgery. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guest Editor Geoff Dunn presents a comprehensive look at surgical palliative care. Topics will include In-Patient Palliative Care Consultation and Surgery, Palliative Care in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Surgical Intensive Care and Bereavement, Palliative Surgical Oncology, The Palliative Surgery Discussion, Palliative Interventional Radiology, Palliative Care and Pediatric Surgery, Palliative Urology, Spiritual Dimensions of Surgical Palliative Care, Surgeons and Introspection, and much more!
Download or read book Surgical Palliative Care and Pain Management an Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics written by Geoffrey Dunn and published by Clinics: Surgery. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics brings the reader up to date on the most important advances in surgical palliative care for anesthesiology intensivists. Topics covered include recent trends and developments, palliative care of patients on high doses of narcotics, trauma in the surgical ICU, care of family in the surgical ICU, communication skills in palliative surgery, surgical palliative care in Haiti, and much more.
Download or read book Textbook of Onco Anesthesiology written by Rakesh Garg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers all essential evidence on perioperative care and anesthetic concerns for cancer surgeries, including the evaluation and assessment of patients’ schedule for cancer surgeries, perioperative anesthetic management of various cancers, perioperative analgesia for cancer surgeries, and issues related to inoperable cancers. It reviews anesthetic considerations of all cancer types as there is a wide variation in anesthetic requirements in this subset of patients. Cancer surgeries are on the rise worldwide and healthcare facilities with cancer as a core specialty are emerging quickly around the globe. As cancer is on rise and efficient surgical management is available, more and more patients are being treated surgically. However, cancer surgeries are complicated, have varied concerns and these are not covered sufficiently in presently available textbooks of anesthesiology. This book fulfills the growing need for complete and comprehensive textbook of onco-anesthesia and fills the gap in the current texts that do not exclusively cover anesthesia for cancer surgeries. This textbook serves as a comprehensive but quick guide for trainee residents/fellows and practicing anesthesiologists, clinicians and surgeons.
Download or read book Palliative Care in Surgical Oncology an Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America Volume 30 3 written by Bridget N. Fahy and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Bridget N. Fahy, is devoted to Palliative Care in Surgical Oncology. Dr. Fahy has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Current guidelines for integration of palliative care in oncology; Management of malignant bowel obstruction; Management of peritoneal carcinomatosis & malignant ascites; Artificial nutrition in patients with advanced malignancy; Selecting patients for palliative procedures in oncology; Palliative radiotherapy: Indications and outcomes; Ethical considerations for caring for patients with advanced cancer; Evaluation and management of malignant biliary obstruction; Systemic anti-cancer treatments for advanced cancer patients: What a surgical oncologist needs to know; Role of palliative medicine training in surgical oncology; Navigating difficult conversations: Breaking bad news and exploring goals of care in surgical patients; Strategies for optimizing perioperative pain management for the cancer patient; and more!
Download or read book Difficult Decisions in Surgical Ethics written by Vassyl A. Lonchyna and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed guide to the ethical considerations involved when making decisions in surgery. Chapters feature a uniform format, which feature a case that represents a real-life problem, discussion of the medical indications of that issue, the latest available medical solutions, and related ethical considerations. In some cases, more in-depth debate is provided on why a particular decision should or should not be made based-upon ethical principles. Information boxes containing key statements and relevant data in clear easy-to-digest tables facilitates the reader in being able to assimilate the most important points covered in each chapter. Difficult Decisions in Surgical Ethics: An Evidence-Based Approach is a thorough review of ethical considerations in a range of surgical scenarios encompassing both adult and pediatric topics, training surgical residents, ethical care during a pandemic, critical care, palliative care, sensitivity to religious and ethnic mores, clinical research, and innovation. It is intended to be a vital resource for practicing and trainee surgeons seeking a comprehensive up-to-date resource on ethical topics in surgical practice. The work is part of the Difficult Decisions in Surgery series covering a range of surgical specialties.
Download or read book Management of Gastric Cancer written by Paul H. Sugarbaker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gastric cancer has been one of the great malignant scourges affecting man kind for as long as medical records have been kept. Until operative resection pioneered by Bilroth and others became available, no effective treatment was feasible and death from cancer was virtually inevitable. Even with resection by total gastrectomy, the chances of tumor eradication remained small. Over recent years, however, the situation has been changing. Some changes have resulted from better understanding of the disease, early detec tion, and better management techniques with applied clinical research, but the reasons for other changes are poorly understood. For example, the incidence of gastric cancer is decreasing, especially in westernized societies, where it has fallen from one of the most common cancers to no longer being in the top five causes of cancer death. Still it remains the number one killer of adult males in Japan and Korea. Whether the reduced incidence in western societies is a result of dietary changes or methods of food preservation, or some other reason, is as yet uncertain. Improvements in outcome have been reported from mass screening and early detection; more refined techniques of establishing early diagnosis, tumor type, and tumor extent; more radical surgical resection; and resection at earlier stages of disease.
Download or read book Surgical Palliative Care written by Geoffrey P Dunn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-05-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surgical Palliative Care describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive to be useful in palliation and clinicians instinctively turn to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and other drugs. Surgery, with increasingly minimal access techniques, may be simpler and less invasive than other treatments and produces excellent palliation. Indeed, most types of surgery are not curative and the aim of this book is to alert all concerned with palliative care to the usefulness and appropriateness of a surgical option. The text is divided into two sections; the first dealing with general issues, varying from quality of life measurement to spirituality, and the second illustrating their application in different specialties of surgery ranging from neurosurgery to urology. The book ends with a challenge to surgeons to change their perspective from curative surgery, in terms of simply cure or failure, to improvement in quality of life and relief of symptoms. Aimed primarily at palliative medicine and pain consultants, this book will also appeal to surgeons who increasingly need to know more about palliative care.
Download or read book Medicare Hospice Benefits written by United States. Health Care Financing Administration and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palliative Care in Oncology written by Bernd Alt-Epping and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative care provides comprehensive support for severely affected patients with any life-limiting or life-threatening diagnosis. To do this effectively, it requires a disease-specific approach as the patients’ needs and clinical context will vary depending on the underlying diagnosis. Experts in the field of palliative care and oncology describe in detail the needs of patients with advanced cancer in comparison to those with non-cancer disease and also identify the requirements of patients with different cancer entities. Basic principles of symptom control are explained, with careful attention to therapy for pain associated with either the cancer or its treatment and to symptom-guided antineoplastic therapy. Complex therapeutic strategies for palliative cancer patients are highlighted that involve both cancer- and symptom-directed options and address a range of therapeutic aims. Issues relating to drug use in palliative cancer care are fully explored, and a separate section is devoted to care in the final phase. A range of organizational and policy issues are also discussed, and the book concludes by considering likely future developments in palliative care for cancer patients. Palliative Care in Oncology will be of particular interest to palliative care physicians who are interested in broadening the scope of their disease-specific knowledge, as well as to oncologists who wish to learn more about modern palliative care concepts relevant to their day-to-day work with cancer patients.
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing written by Betty Rolling Ferrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing remains the most comprehensive treatise on the art and science of palliative care nursing available. Dr. Betty Rolling Ferrell and Dr. Judith A. Paice have invited 162 nursing experts to contribute 76 chapters addressing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs pertinent to the successful palliative care team. Organized within 7 Sections, this new edition covers the gamut of principles of care: from the time of initial diagnosis of a serious illness to the end of a patient's life and beyond. This fifth edition features several new chapters, including chapters on advance care planning, organ donation, self-care, global palliative care, and the ethos of palliative nursing. Each chapter is rich with tables and figures, case examples for improved learning, and a strong evidence-based practice to support the highest quality of care. The book offers a valuable and practical resource for students and clinicians across all settings of care. The content is relevant for specialty hospice agencies and palliative care programs, as well as generalist knowledge for schools of nursing, oncology, critical care, and pediatric. Developed with the intention of emphasizing the need to extend palliative care beyond the specialty to be integrated in all settings and by all clinicians caring for the seriously ill, this new edition will continue to serve as the cornerstone of palliative care education.
