| Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care Contributor(s): Hui, David (Editor), Bruera, Eduardo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0199329753 ISBN-13: 9780199329755 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $72.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Terminal Care - Medical | Oncology - General - Medical | Internal Medicine |
| Dewey: 616.994 |
| LCCN: 2013039278 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, nephrologic and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric. This evidence-based resource is ideal for educating clinicians delivering palliative care to cancer patients in acute care facilities about complex internal medicine problems, decision-making regarding diagnostics and therapeutics which require a good understanding of state-of-the-art internal medicine and palliative care principles. |