Living with Dying

A Guide to Palliative Care

The late Cicely Saunders, Mary Baines, Robert Dunlop (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

76 Seiten

1995 | 3rd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262514-4 (ISBN)

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Takes into account the developments in palliative care, offering advice on the aspects including drug treatment and psychological care. This handbook offers guidelines on bad news and communicating with the patient's relatives. It discusses the ethical issues in palliative care and the spiritual aspects of dying for people of different religions.

The new edition of this successful book has been up-dated to incorporate recent advances in both approach to, and treatment of, the terminally ill. Based on many years of monitoring clinical practice and research at St Christopher's Hospice, Dame Cicely Saunders presents practical, balanced advice on the general ethical and medical principles of caring for dying patients. This will continue to be an invaluable handbook for all hospice physicians and nurses as a compassionate source of factual information.

1. Principles of palliative care ; 2. Terminal pain ; 3. The use of analgesics ; 4. Adjuvant therapy in pain control ; 5. Control of symptoms other than pain ; 6. Other components of total pain ; References ; Further reading ; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.4.1995
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	116 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
ISBN-10	0-19-262514-4 / 0192625144
ISBN-13	978-0-19-262514-4 / 9780192625144
Zustand	Neuware