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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193,99 €
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
17.08.2026
Verlag
Oscar PublishingSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
28/21,6/1,4 cm
Gewicht
654 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-80927-119-8
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. 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. 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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