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  • Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement

    by Edwina A. Brown, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, Emma Murphy ...
    Series series Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care
    Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life. The book describes the tools used to achieve a good death including advance care planning, symptom control law and ethics, recognizing dying, withdrawal of treatment, and a holistic approach to patient ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • A Consultation With the Back Doctor

    by Hamilton Hall ...
    The latest advice from the original bestselling Back DoctorTwenty-five years ago, Dr. Hamilton Hall wrote the book that changed the way back-pain sufferers deal with their affliction. In The Back Doctor, he advocated activity instead of bed rest. In place of braces and girdles, he suggested that patients follow a program of specific exercise. Most of all, he took the mystery out of back pain.Three ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell ...
    This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • A Practical Guide to Palliative Care in Paediatrics

    by Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service – Paediatric Palliative Care Service ...
    This ebook is a practical guide to all of the issues relating to the care of a child or young person with a life limiting condition. It aims to empower clinicians to care for children at home or as close to home as possible. It is a national resource and a major contribution towards supporting dying children and their families to have the best quality of life. Sections include psychosocial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Pain®, 4th edition

    by Donlin M. Long, MD, PhD ...
    Pain can be both physiologically and psychologically debilitating. Furthermore, pain management can be complex. This text guides clinicians in assessing and treating acute and chronic pain. In the 3rd edition of this comprehensive handbook, the author, an international expert in pain management, discusses many different types of pain as well as pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment options. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Regional Anesthesia in Trauma

    A Case-Based Approach

    by Jeff Gadsden ...
    The management of pain from acute injuries is a priority in trauma care. Regional analgesic techniques are very effective at treating acute pain and are gaining in popularity as recognition of their beneficial effects on morbidity increases. Regional Anesthesia in Trauma employs multiple narrative problem-solving case scenarios that explore the use of regional anesthesia in: • Blunt chest trauma, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

    Edited by Sriram Yennurajalingam, Eduardo Bruera ...
    Series series Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine
    This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • To Comfort Always

    A history of palliative medicine since the nineteenth century

    by David Clark ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Histories
    Palliative medicine was first recognised as a specialist field in 1987. One hundred years earlier, London based doctor William Munk published a treatise on 'easeful death' that mapped out the principles of practical, spiritual, and medical support at the end of life. In the intervening years a major process of development took place which led to innovative services, new approaches to the study and ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Oncology

    Edited by Jim Cassidy, Donald Bissett, Roy A. J. Spence OBE, Gareth Morris-Stiff, Miranda Payne ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Now fully revised and in its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Oncology has been the essential go-to guide for students and practitioners in oncology for over a decade. The scientific basis and diagnosis of cancers is covered, as well as drugs, biomarkers, and the presentation and psychosocial aspects of oncology. Concise, practical, and comprehensive, there is no better companion for both ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Compassion

    The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care

    by Philip J. Larkin ...
    Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part of palliative care. In this ground-breaking book, international experts give their critical thoughts on the essence and role of compassion, in both palliative and hospice care over the past half-century. Compassion: The essence of palliative and end-of-life care ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Heart Failure

    From Advanced Disease to Bereavement

    by Miriam Johnson, Karen Hogg, James Beattie ...
    Series series Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care
    Excellent end of life care for people with heart failure is challenging but possible. Failure to address this aspect of care has serious consequences for patients, their families, clinicians and the use of health resources. Heart Failure: From Advanced Disease to Bereavement illustrates the complexity and importance of end of life care for patients with advanced heart failure. This book is a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Speaking of Dying

    A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care

    by Louis Heyse-Moore ...
    Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.Louis Heyse-Moore draws on his wealth of experience as a trained counsellor and palliative medicine specialist. Covering difficult subjects ... Read more

    $36.09 USD