Supportive Care for the Renal Patient

by Brown, Edwina; Chambers, E. Joanna; Germain, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780199560035
• ISBN10: 019956003X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Supportive Care for the Renal Patient, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of supportive care for the nephrology patient. An international group of contributors emphasize the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care and the issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis. The book addresses the psychological impact of the disease, the importance of involving the patient in making decisions about their care, ethical considerations, the role of the family, and the role of the multidisciplinary team. This new edition includes two new chapters on conservative management of advanced kidney disease (AKD) and dialysis in the very elderly. The chapters covering non pain symptoms, advance care planning, quality of life, psychological and psychiatric consideration, and end-of-life care have also been completely revised to include new evidence and current thinking. This book will be of particular interest to palliative care practitioners, nephrologists, who increasingly need to know more about palliative care, nurse practitioners, dialysis nurses, social workers, dieticians, and psychiatric consultants.

Table of Contents

Introduction to ethical case analysis

Changing patterns of renal replacement therapy

The concept of supportive care for the renal patient

Planning a renal palliative care programme and its components

Advance care planning in patients with end stage renal disease

What determines a good outcome?: the selection of patients for renal replacement therapy

Health related quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease

Symptoms in renal disease: their epidemiology, assessment and management

Management of pain in renal failure

Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with advanced renal disease

Spiritual care of the renal patient

Support of the home dialysis patient

Initiation, withdrawal and withholding of dialysis: Part 1: Clinical; Part 2: Communicating with patients and family, Part 1 - Lionel U. Mailloux, Part 2 - Tom Sensky and Celia Eggeling

Conservative management of end stage kidneyd disease

End stage renal disease in the older person

Death and end of life care in advanced kidney disease

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