End-of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition

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End-of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition

End-of-Life-Care: A Practical Guide, Second Edition

Authors: Barry Kinzbrunner and Joel Policzer

Published: December 2010

eISBN: 9780071766616 0071766618 | ISBN: 9780071545273

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Section One: Preparing Patients for End-of-Life Care

1. Predicting Prognosis: How to Decide When End-of-Life Care Is Needed

2. How to Assist Patients and Families in Accessing End-of-Life Care

3. Communicating with Patients and Families

4. How to Work with the Interdisciplinary Team

5. Measuring Outcomes and Quality of Life

Section Two: Management of Symptoms

6. Management of Pain at the End of Life

7. Dyspnea and Other Respiratory Symptoms

8. Gastrointestinal Symptoms Near the End of Life

9. Neurological Symptoms at the End of Life

10. Delirium, Depression, and Anxiety

11. Wound Care and Other Dermatologic Problems at the End of Life

12. The Last Days: The Actively Dying Patient

13. Other Common Symptoms Near the End of Life

14. Psychosocial and Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life

15. The Physician's Role in Spiritual Care

16. Psychosocial and Spiritual Assessments

17. Grief and Bereavement

Section Three: Diagnostic and Invasive Interventions

18. Diagnostic Tests and Invasive Procedures in End-of-Life Care

19. Palliative Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy

20. Invasive Cardiac Interventions

21. Invasive Respiratory Care

Section Four: Ethical Dilemmas

22. Advance Directives and CPR at the End of Life

23. Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Palliative Sedation

24. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Section Five: Specific Populations

25. End-of-Life Care in Patients with AIDS

26. Care of the Pediatric Patient at the End of Life

27. Grief and Bereavement in Children

28. End-of-Life Care and Critical Care: The Emergency Department and the Intensive Care Unit

29. Hospice in Long-Term Care

30. The Geriatric Patient: Pain Management

Section Six: Diversity

31. Cultural Diversity and End-of-Life Care

32. Religious Diversity and End-of-Life Care

Answers to Self-Assessment Questions

Index