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Title: Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease
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| Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease by Informa HealthCare Great reference for any new hospice nurse..... |
| Although I have been a icu nurse for the past 20 years, I am new to end of life care. This book is with me for reference. I am becoming more informed each day. I especially like the fact I can research a symptom and then treat it without delay. The lay out of the book is easy to follow with fifteen of the most common symptoms experienced with the dying. |
| Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease by Informa HealthCare Practice Guidelines in Palliative Care |
| An excellent Primer on the subject with clinical vignettes and straight-forward discussion and therapeutic suggestions. |
| Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease by Informa HealthCare Great book |
| I recently started as a Hospice Nurse. I have found this book to be a great tool. It is very simple to use and easily understood. |
| Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease by Informa HealthCare Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic |
| excelent resource for the bedside nurse to care for patients with advanced illness. Great tables and recommendations for multiple symptoms. |
| Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease by Informa HealthCare Product Description |
Make your patients’final days as comfortable as possible!There are few situations more challenging and emotionally taxing to a medical professional than the care of the terminally ill. Much has been learned in recent years about symptom control that can profoundly improve the quality of life in a patient's final days.Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care: Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease provides you with symptom control approaches that will help meet patients’last wishes, improve the quality of life for patients and their families, and lessen their physical and emotional pain. Palliative care--often based on anecdotal experience--has until now been inconsistent and much of the time less than optimally effective. Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care is the result of comprehensive literature reviews and clinical validation resulting in recommendations and suggestions for therapies that will improve the lives of patients who are in pain and discomfort. Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care presents seven sections--Algorithm, Literature Review, Evidence Tables, Drug Therapy Tables, Evaluation Instruments, Unanswered Questions, and References--on each of these problems: - anorexia and cachexia
- anxiety
- bleeding problems
- constipation
- delirium
- depression
- diarrhea
- dyspnea (shortness of breath)
- fatigue and weakness
- mouth problems
- nausea and vomiting
- nutrition and hydrationEvidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care is a vital guide for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other clinicians caring for patients with advanced irreversible diseases. This volume supplies the data you'll require to offer patients relevant care and meet their needs.
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