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A practical guide to palliative care
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A practical guide to palliative care

Author: Jerry L Old; Daniel Swagerty
Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide optimal end-of-life care. This book presents a multidimensional, holistic approach to assessment and management of the  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jerry L Old; Daniel Swagerty
ISBN: 0781763436 9780781763431
OCLC Number: 84900461
Description: xii, 348 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: Section 1. The palliative care approach --
section 2. Cultural diversity in end-of-life care --
section 3. Approach to the patient --
section 4. Predicting life expectancy --
section 5. Delivery of palliative care --
section 6. Terminal care --
section 7. Nonpain sympton management --
section 8. Pain control --
section 9. Palliative interventions --
section 10. The palliative pediatric patient --
section 11. Charting --
section 12. Ethics at the end of life.
Responsibility: Jerry L. Old, Daniel L. Swagerty, Jr.
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