Palliative Care Clinical Reasoning and Management: A Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guide to Symptom Control, Serious Illness, Communication, Decision-Making, Hospice, and End-of-Life Care
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
17.08.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
27,9/21,6/1,4 cm
Gewicht
603 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798193336792
Serious illness creates some of the most demanding decisions in clinical medicine. Symptoms become complex, treatment burdens increase, prognosis becomes uncertain, families need guidance, and clinicians must balance what is medically possible with what is genuinely beneficial. Palliative care provides the framework for making those decisions with greater precision, clarity, and clinical purpose.
Palliative Care: Clinical Reasoning and Management is a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to the assessment and management of patients living with serious, progressive, and life-limiting illness.
Written in the style of a premium clinical medicine reference, this volume brings together symptom control, pharmacology, communication, prognosis, ethics, decision-making, disease-specific care, caregiver support, hospice, and end-of-life medicine within one coherent clinical framework.
Rather than treating each problem in isolation, the book consistently moves from presentation and mechanism to targeted treatment, reassessment, escalation, and goal-concordant decision-making-helping readers understand not only what can be done, but why, when, and for whom.
Inside, readers will develop a stronger command of:
Pain, opioids, dyspnea, nausea, delirium, agitation, fatigue, cachexia, wounds, gastrointestinal symptoms, and other major palliative syndromes, with attention to mechanism, treatment selection, toxicity, and treatment failure.
Serious-illness communication, prognosis, goals of care, capacity, advance care planning, family meetings, and difficult ethical decisions encountered across modern clinical practice.
Palliative care in cancer, heart failure, respiratory disease, kidney and liver failure, neurologic disease, dementia, frailty, pediatrics, and multimorbidity, with disease-specific reasoning rather than generic recommendations.
The final days of life, palliative emergencies, hospice, refractory suffering, palliative sedation, caregiver preparation, and continuity of care across hospital, ICU, home, and community settings.
Full-color medical diagrams throughout the book transform complex clinical relationships into clear visual frameworks, reinforcing symptom pathways, decision models, disease trajectories, and management strategies.
The result is a reference designed to strengthen the reader's ability to recognize suffering earlier, identify reversible contributors, select proportionate interventions, communicate difficult information clearly, anticipate what comes next, and build care plans that remain clinically sound as illness evolves.
For physicians, trainees, nurses, advanced practice clinicians, and professionals caring for seriously ill patients, Palliative Care: Clinical Reasoning and Management offers a structured approach to one of medicine's most consequential responsibilities: providing care that is technically rigorous, ethically grounded, and aligned with the realities of serious illness.
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