Emergencies in Palliative and Supportive Care

by Currow, David; Clark, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780198567226
• ISBN10: 0198567227
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This essential handbook provides a practical, accessible guide to emergency situations encountered in palliative care practice. Using a system of icons, and structured around frequently encountered symptoms, it is split into two sections. The first section explores how patients withlife-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 ofthe presenting symptoms.The book will provide trainees in palliative medicine, nurses, family doctors, and other allied health professionals with a pocket guide to the emergency care of people requiring palliative and supportive care, and will complement the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care.

Author Biography

Professor David Currow MPH, FRACP is Chair of the Department of Palliative and Supportive services, Flinders University; Director of Southern Adelaide Palliative Services, Daw Park; and Director of the International Institute of Palliative and Supportive Studies, Adelaide, Australia. Dr Katherine Clark MB BS MMed (pain management) FRACP FAChPM, Senior Staff Specialist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown; Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia.

Table of Contents

Frequently encountered symptoms
Frequently encountered symptoms	p. 3
Specific clinical presentations
Clinical pharmacology	p. 55
Dermatological problems	p. 79
Cardiovascular problems	p. 93
Gastrointestinal disorders	p. 123
Haematological disorders	p. 165
Metabolic disorders	p. 183
Neurology	p. 203
Orthopaedic disorders	p. 227
Mental health	p. 235
Endocrine problems	p. 247
Respiratory problems	p. 263
Genitourological disorders	p. 287
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