Palliativ medicin

Palliativ medicin är ett akademiskt ämnesområde med klinisk utbildning och forskning och utgör grunden för den palliativa vården. Dess syfte är att förbättra vården för de döende och deras familjer.Palliativ vård är en aktiv helhetsvård som bygger p…

Den första boken på svenska i palliativ omvårdnad för undersköterskor och vårdbiträden. Varje kapitel har fallbeskrivningar, faktarutor och reflektionsfrågor. Granskad av undersköterskor på Stockholms sjukhem. Peter Strang är Sveriges första profess…

»Att dö är inte så farligt. Det är tanken på min sista tid i livet som skrämmer mig.« I Jag vill dö med en ängel vid min sida berättar Anita Lanz om sitt arbete med döende patienter. Boken har samma tonläge och vänder sig till samma publik som Ulla-…

Vård i hemmet blir allt vanligare. Olika vårdformer utvecklas och professionella vårdare och medicinsk apparatur kommer innanför hemmets dörr. Det ger större möjligheter än tidigare att både ge och få vård hemma. Hem är ett laddat begrepp och rikt p…

En rykande aktuell debattbok om livsuppehållande åtgärder. Här ger ledande forskare från Karolinska olika bilder av hur man kan närma sig de stora frågorna kring döden, där medicinen och juridiken möts i vården. Vems vilja skall gälla? Hur beslutar…

'It has been a true pleasure to have had the opportunity to peruse the second edition of "Palliative Care Nursing"...This book, authored predominately by UK-based experts, succeeds in presenting sophisticated thoughts in readily accessible language!…

Att möta vuxna närstående i sorgens tid I livets slutskede sker ofta starka möten och viktiga samtal. Denna bok innehåller ett brett urval av konkreta fallbeskrivningar ? utan avkall på sekretess och etik. Arenan är palliativ vård där frågorna om li…

Participatory research is a relatively new method of researching practice especially within palliative care. It differs from other methodologies in that there is an expectation of action within the research process. The values that underpin particip…

Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Translating that principle into methods of guiding care at the end of life, however, can be a complicated and daunting task. Dignity therapy, a psychological…

Psychiatric, or psychosocial, palliative care has transformed palliative medicine. Palliation that neglects psychosocial dimensions of patient and family experience fails to meet contemporary standards of comprehensive palliative care. While a focus…

Advance Care Planning is an essential part of the new NHS National Programme on End of Life Care, aiming to improve the chances of 'a good death' by discussing and planning how this might be managed. This book helps readers explore a wide range of i…

När någon är svårt sjuk vill man göra allt för att hjälpa. Men vad vågar man prata med den sjuka om? Hur tröstar man? Hur kan man lindra smärtor? Varför äter den sjuka så lite? Och vad får man egentligen göra på sjukhus? Kan man sköta patienten hemm…

Teamwork is a complex but essential component of palliative care. The needs of people diagnosed with life threatening disease will vary greatly over time, and it is rarely possible for just one professional to be able to provide adequate care. In or…

One in 70 children are admitted to paediatric intensive care (PIC) at some time during childhood. Most paediatric junior doctors will rotate through PIC, and will be involved in organising acute intensive care for critically ill children. The range…

Worldwide, more than 50 million people die each year and it is estimated on the basis of the conditions leading to death that up to 60% of them could benefit from some form of palliative care. It is a public health challenge to ensure that these peo…

Denna bok angår ALLA levande människor. Ingen vet hur ens liv kommer att avslutas. I denna debattskrift föreslås flera åtgärder avsedda att minska lidandet vid livets slut och att samtidigt förbättra förhållandena för dem som verkligen behöver och e…

"Palliative Care: Bringing Comfort and Hope" is a textbook written by nurses for nurses. It will be of value to those undertaking palliative care diplomas and degrees, as well as be of interest to other disciplines who have an active role in deliver…

Presenting a supportive approach to the key themes of palliative care nursing, this title contains important material of a wide range of initiatives that are impacting on end of life care across the UK.

EQ-5D from the EuroQol Group is a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health. It is in widespread use in many countries and has been applied in many different settings. EQ-5D is now an integral feature of many cl…

Political, economic, social, cultural and technological changes have led to profound transformations in the ways that death and loss are perceived and managed in contemporary society. Over the last few decades, the long term shift to chronic illness…

There are few things requiring more expertise, delicacy, and compassion than caring for an infant, child, or young adult with a life-limiting condition. Written by leading researchers, clinicians from relevant disciplines, family members, and advoca…

There are few things requiring more expertise, delicacy, and compassion than caring for an infant, child, or young adult with a life-limiting condition. Written by leading researchers, clinicians from relevant disciplines, family members, and advoca…

"The Textbook of Interdisciplinary Pediatric Palliative Care", by Dr. Joanne Wolfe, et al., aims to inform interdisciplinary teams about palliative care of children with life-threatening illness. It addresses critical domains such as language and co…

Hospital palliative care teams have been established in rapidly increasing numbers over the last 20 years, as it has been recognised that hospices can never transfer the philosophy and practice of palliative care into the acute sector by simply exis…

Communication in Palliative Nursing unites complementary work in communication studies and nursing research to present a theoretically grounded curriculum for teaching palliative care communication to nurses. The chapters outline the COMFORT curricu…

Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or motor neurone disease) is a rare disease but one that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for ALS are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the p…

Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or motor neurone disease) is a rare disease but one that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for ALS are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the p…

The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice socia…

The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice socia…

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Fishman shows how communicating better with patients about their pain can help physicians create safer and more effective treatment strategies. Listening to Pain offers physicians a wealth of practical guidance about…

A Practical and Comprehensive Introduction to the Field of Palliative Medicine"This is not so much a handbook of palliative care as the handbook of palliative care." "--Palliative Medicine"The "Third Edition" of the BMA's 1999 Medical Book of the Ye…

Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors. Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification, exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer…

Respiratory symptoms such as breathlessness and cough are common in patients with advancing and incurable disease. For example, cancer, chronic cardiac and pulmonary disease, progressive neuromuscular disorders and degenerative disorders all give ri…

Support for the family is a key component of palliative care practice and philosophy, with both patient and family construed as the 'unit of care'. However, there is not always formal acknowledgement of the importance of the family carer role, or th…

A fully updated and revised edition that reflects recent developments in theoretical and conceptual approaches to communication in healthcare.

The idea of a philosophy of palliative care emerged with Cicely Saunders' vision for 'a good death', and was developed further with the WHO definition of palliative care. It is now being applied not only to cancer patients, but to all patients in en…

With a rapidly expanding elderly population, there has been a marked increase in the incidence of dementia, and this dreadful, debilitating illness now affects - directly or indirectly - millions of people across the world. Dementia throws up a numb…

The syringe driver is a simple and cost-effective method of delivering a continuous subcutaneous infusion (CSCI). A CSCI provides a safe and effective way of drug administration and can be used to maintain symptom control in patients who are no long…

Quality, as exemplified by Quality-of-life (QoL) assessment, is frequently discussed among health care professionals and often invoked as a goal for improvement, but somehow rarely defined, even as it is regularly assessed. It is understood that som…

Using philosophical/analytical methods and theories, this book discusses ideas about what makes for a better death within a palliative care context. It also discusses how these ideas might affect the practice of palliative care. It is aimed at under…

"Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine" is the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R. Sean Morrison equip you to eva…

Originally published by Oxford in 1998, Psycho-Oncology was the first comprehensive text in the field and remains the gold standard today. The second edition reflects the explosion of information and major advances in psychological, psychiatric, and…

The effective management of pain from cancer is a top priority for patients, carers and healthcare professionals, and has been the subject of extensive research. Approximately two-thirds of cancer patients will experience severe pain, and many of th…

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering…

The field of transplantation has grown significantly in the last 25 years. Improved surgical technology and important pharmacological advances have permitted transplantation to extend the lives of individuals. Perhaps in no other discipline is there…

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement was founded by Alex C. Michalos and published its first issue in March 1974. It has been the leading journal for scholarly research in its fie…

This second edition addresses a variety of ethical issues that arise in the care of oncology patients. Many volumes have been written on medical ethics in the past 30 years. However, few have focused on ethical issues specific to the care of cancer…

Dr. Richard B. Patt, one of America's leading cancer pain experts, teams up with science writer Susan Lang to produce a much-needed, sensible handbook for patients and caregivers on all aspects of cancer pain. The authors illuminate the reasons why…

As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international…

A remarkable cat. A special gift. A life-changing journey.They thought he was just a cat.When Oscar arrived at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island he was a cute little guy with attitude. He loved to stretch out in a pu…