Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care - 9780199329755
Un libro in lingua di Hui David M.D. (EDT) Bruera Eduardo M.D. (EDT) edito da Oxford University Press, 2014
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Hui David M.D. (EDT) Bruera Eduardo M.D. (EDT)
- Editore: Oxford University Press
- Collana: Oxford Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Aprile '14
- Genere: MEDICAL
- Argomenti : Neoplasms therapy Palliative Care methods Comorbidity
- Pagine: 242
- EAN-13: 9780199329755