Palliative Care Consultations in Haemato-oncology

by Booth, Sara; Bruera, Eduardo; Craig, Jenny

• ISBN13: 9780198528081
• ISBN10: 0198528086
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Palliative Care Consultations in Haemoto-oncology is the first book in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. Patients with hematological malignancy often undergo the most rigorous treatments, usually requiring long inpatient stays at tertiary referral centres far removed from friends, families and everyday life. The treatment for some malignancies is palliative, although aggressive, from diagnosis and there can be a number of difficult symptom control problems all of which are covered in this book. This volume draws on the expertise of the hematologist who is vital if the patient is to have optima care and provides practical advice in an easily accessible form so that the book can be read and referred to on the ward, or before a domiciliary visit. Specialists in palliative care and oncology settings, working in the acute sector and in hospices, will find this book invaluable. It will also appeal to consultants as well as specialist registrars, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners in palliative care, oncology and hematology.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
1 Management of myeloma	1	(10)
Jenny I.O. Craig
2 Management of lymphoma	11	(18)
Kristian Bowles and Robert Marcus
3 Management of acute leukaemias	29	(14)
Santiago Pavlovsky, Pablo Desmerg, and Maria Cecilia Dignani
4 Myelodysplastic syndromes	43	(18)
Ghulam Mufti and Kavita Raj
5 Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation	61	(14)
Helen Balsdon and Jenny I.O. Craig
6 Palliative care for patients undergoing intensive chemotherapy	75	(14)
Paul Perkins and Susan Closs
7 Mouth care for haematology patients	89	(22)
Ilora Finlay, Pia Amsler, and Rosemary Wade
8 The essentials of symptom control in haemato-oncology	111	(26)
Anna Spathis
9 When the opioid fails: managing the patient with severe neuropathic pain	137	(16)
Annette Vielhaber and Russell K. Portenoy
10 Changing the emphasis from active curative care to active palliative care in haematology patients	153	(24)
David Jeffrey and Ray Owen
11 The significance and management of anaemia in palliative care patients	177	(14)
Wale Atoyebi, Tim Littlewood, and Robert Twycross
12 Thrombotic and bleeding complications in haematological malignancies	191	(20)
Beverley Hunt and Simon Noble
13 The management of sweating	211	(8)
Mary Miller
14 Home care for terminally ill haematology patients	219	(18)
Cathy Alban-Jones and Lorraine Moth
15 The last days of life	237	(12)
Fiona Hicks
Index	249