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(0)PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Hospital palliative care teams have been established in rapidly increasing numbers over the last 20 years, as it has been recognized that hospices can never transfer the philosophy and practice of palliative care into the acute sector by simply existing; the often work as 'stand alone units' and remain outside mainstream medicine. However, it has become apparent that improving access to palliative care for patients in acute hospitals is not as easy...
2) Pain
Author
Publisher
Elsevier Churchill Livingstone
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
2nd ed.
Description
Churchill's Pocketbook of Pain provides a practical pocketbook for trainee anaesthetists, which covers the management of acute and chronic pain.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
This title gives advice on advanced pain management techniques for cancer pains. Emphasis is placed on the suitability and selection of patients for different invasive and complex procedures based on the patient's history. Case histories provide compressive insight into the complexities of holistic management, with pain being only one of the factors that distress patients and families.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Sixth edition.
Description
"The new edition of Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine been rigorously updated to offer a truly global perspective, highlighting the best current evidence-based practices, and collective wisdom from more than 200 experts around the world. The book covers all the new and emerging topics, updated, and restructured to reflect major developments in the increasingly widespread acceptance of palliative medicine as a fundamental public health need. The...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Fourth edition.
Description
"Advance care planning (ACP) conversations and goals of care (GOC) discussions prepare patients and their substitute decision makers for medical decision making. When rooted in a patient's values and person-centred in approach, ACP and GOC discussions can optimize the likelihood a person receives care that is concordant with their goals. This chapter explores the definitions and clinical processes for ACP and GOC discussions and describes how a patient's...