Surgical Palliative Care

Anne Mosenthal MD, FACS, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, and the Benjamin F Rush Jr. MD Endowed Chair of Surgery, at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. At the time of her appointment in 2011, Anne was one of only six women surgery chairs in the 141 medical schools in the US. A trauma surgeon most of her career, she has spent the last 25 years caring for those affected by traumatic injury in and around Newark, and advocating nationally for improvements in trauma and critical care. After graduating Cornell in 1979, Anne did research in microbiology, received her MD at Dartmouth Medical School and then completed her surgical training at the University of Massachusetts and Massachusetts General Hospital. Geoffrey P. Dunn, MD, FACS, received a BA in religion at Haverford College and his surgical training with the Harvard Surgical Service, New England Deaconess Hospital. His surgical experience included trauma, burns, pediatrics, and cancer in his country and abroad. He was Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Hamot Medical Center before working full time in the field of palliative and hospice care with Great Lakes Hospice and at Hamot Medical Center. He has previously served on the Board of Governors, American College of Surgeons and chaired its Committee on Surgical Palliative Care from 2001 through 2014.

Foreword by Pauline W. Chen

Chapter 1. Surgical Palliative Care: The Historical Case
Geoffrey P. Dunn

Chapter 2. Principles of Surgical Palliative Care
Anne C. Mosenthal

Chapter 3. Models of Care Delivery and Quality Measurement
Katherine Lee and Zara Cooper

Chapter 4. Self-Care and the Surgeon
Timothy R. Siegel

Chapter 5. Spirituality and Surgery
Daniel B. Hinshaw

Chapter 6. Preoperative Palliative Care Assessment, Frailty, and Prognostication
Bridget N. Fahy and Myrick C. Shinall, Jr.

Chapter 7. Perioperative DNR
Andrea K. Nagengast

Chapter 8. Shared Decision Making and Goals of Care Discussion in the Preoperative Visit
Anastasia Kunac

Chapter 9. Palliative Care for the Trauma Patient
Jessica H. Ballou and David H. Zonies

Chapter 10. Palliative care for the Emergency Surgery Patient
Ana Berlin

Chapter 11. Palliative Care in Burn and Thermal Injury
Alisa Savetamal and Kristin Edwards

Chapter 12. Communicating Serious News
Sangeeta Lamba and Michele Fiorentino

Chapter 13. Palliative Care in Transplantation
Emily B. Rivet, Jeffrey Stern, Karunasai Mahadevan, and Danielle Noreika

Chapter 14. Principles, Assessment, and Evaluation for Palliative Surgery
Joshua T. Cohen and Thomas J. Miner

Chapter 15. Palliative Gastrointestinal Surgery
Brian Badgwell

Chapter 16. Palliative Thoracic Surgery
Yvonne M. Carter, Rebecca Carr, John Anagnostakos, and Mark R. Katlic

Chapter 17. Palliation in Head and Neck Surgery
Susan D. McCammon

Chapter 18. Palliative Care and Cardiovascular Surgery
Dhaval Chauhan and Anne C. Mosenthal

Chapter 19. Invasive Pain Management
Amy Pearson, Jackie Weisbein, and Enas Kandil

Chapter 20. The Family Conference
Melissa Red Hoffman

Chapter 21. Pharmacopalliation of Pain
James B. Ray

Chapter 22. Non-Pain Symptom Management
Jennifer Pruskowski

Chapter 23. The Feeding Access Consult
Christine Toevs

Chapter 24. Transitions of Care: Disposition Planning
Pringl Miller and Kimberly Kopecky

Chapter 25. Care of the Family
Michele Fiorentino

Chapter 26. Palliative Care and Survivorship for the Cancer Patient
Robert S. Krouse

Chapter 27. The Future of Surgical Palliative Care Research: Priorities and Possibilities
Jessica M. Ruck and Fabian M. Johnston

Chapter 28. Surgical Palliative Care Education and Training
Erin M. Sadler and Alexandra M. Easson