Surgical Palliative Care - Geoffrey Dunn

Surgical Palliative Care

An Issue of Surgical Clinics

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2005
Saunders (Verlag)
978-1-4160-2791-1 (ISBN)
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Addresses palliative surgery, which is a subset of surgical palliative care, along with quality of life measurements and outcomes, barriers to palliative care, spiritual vs the mechanistic side of surgery, surgeon-patient communication, end-of-life nutrition, chronic and neuropathic pain management, legal issues, and advance directives.
The aim of this issue can be summarized in the following question: is surgical palliative care a new attitude or a new specialty? Articles will address palliative surgery, which is a subset of surgical palliative care, along with quality of life measurements and outcomes, barriers to palliative care, spiritual vs. the mechanistic side of surgery, surgeon-patient communication, end-of-life nutrition, chronic and neuropathic pain management, legal issues, and advance directives.

1.Surgical Palliative Care - New Attitude Or New Specialty? "When To Cut Is To Care, Not To Cure" (Dunn) 2.Quality of Life Assessment for Chronic and Advanced Illness ( Easson) 3.The Management of Chronic Pain in the Surgical Patient (Thompson)Neuropathic Pain Syndromes in Surgical Patients (Milch) 4.A Pharmacopoeia For Surgical Palliative Care: Non-Pain Symptom Management in Surgical Patients (Lagman) 5.Ethical Issues in Surgical Palliative Care: Am I killing the Patient by "Letting Him Go"? (Pawlik) 6.Legal Issues in Surgical Palliative Care (Lee) 7.Spiritual Issues in Surgical Palliative Care (Hinshaw) 8.Preparation of the Patient for Palliative Procedures (Ross) 9.Surgical Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Setting (Mosenthal) 10.Thoracic Surgery and Palliative Care (Mentzer) 11.Neurosurgery and Palliative Care (Barker) 12.Management of Pathologic Fractures: What Every Surgeon Should Know (Aboulafia) 13.Transplantation Surgery and Palliative Care (Molmenti) 14.Selected Approaches (Choti) 15.Palliative Care Education for Surgeons (Huffman)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.8.2005
Reihe/Serie The Clinics: Surgery ; v. 85-2
Verlagsort Philadelphia
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Chirurgie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
ISBN-10 1-4160-2791-2 / 1416027912
ISBN-13 978-1-4160-2791-1 / 9781416027911
Zustand Neuware
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