Main description:

Introducing Palliative Care (IPC5) is the ideal introductory text for training students in medicine and qualified healthcare professionals in the area of palliative care. The fifth edition covers the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland's recommended curriculum for medical undergraduates. It has much expanded sections on ethics, the law, children, symptom management and contains The Essential Palliative Care Formulary. Although medically oriented, there is much of use to undergraduates and graduates of other disciplines. The clinical focus is on advanced cancer but the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other incurable progressive life-threatening conditions.

Contents:

Contents
Preface
IPC and beyond Abbreviations
Part 1
1.Scope of palliative care
2.Ethical aspects
3.Communication
4.Psychological aspects
5.Spiritual aspects
6.Bereavement

Part 2
7.Symptom management: principles and pain
8.Symptom management: alimentary
9.Symptom management: respiratory
10.Symptom management: genito-urinary
11.Symptom management: psychological & neurological
12.Symptom management: other
13.Emergencies
14.End-of-life care: planning and last days of life

Part 3
15.Children: general aspects
16.Children: symptom management
17.Children: bereavement

Part 4
18.The Essential Palliative Care Formulary
1. Curriculum for under-graduate medical education
2. Certifying death
3. Essential drugs Indexes Drugs Topics