20 Common Problems: End-of-Life Care - Tapa blanda

Kinzbrunner, Barry

 
9780070348837: 20 Common Problems: End-of-Life Care
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ISBN 10: 0070348839 ISBN 13: 9780070348837
Editorial: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2001

Sinopsis

This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life

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Vitas Healthcare Corp, Patient & Family Services, Miami, Florida

De la contraportada

This user-friendly guide offers you practical, direct answers for the difficult and little-taught questions that arise when providing care for the dying.
Features:
* Perspectives of patients, families, and other health care professionals, as well as physicians
* Solution-oriented coverage on preparing patients, managing symptoms, and handling legal/ethical issues near the end of life
* Guidance on timing: when is end-of-life care needed?
* Breaking bad news: how to inform the patient
* Useful, current, guidelines on the treatment of pain, dyspnea, skin and mucus membrane problems, gastrointestinal conditions, and other common symptoms near the end of life
* In-depth discussion of end-of-life controversies, including advance directives and resuscitation, nutritional support and parenteral hydration, and physician-assisted suicide
* How to assess quality of life near its end
* Practical help with end-of-life care for special groups, such as HIV and pediatric patients
* Guidance on bereavement, depression, and other psychosocial and spiritual issues at the end of life
* Suggestions on benefiting from interdisciplinary teamwork
* What every clinician needs to know about the last days of the actively dying

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Editorial
McGraw-Hill Education / Medical
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0070348839
ISBN 13 
9780070348837
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
464
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
no disponible

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780071545273: End-of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition (MEDICAL/DENISTRY)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0071545271 ISBN 13:  9780071545273
Editorial: McGraw Hill / Medical, 2011
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