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Palliative Practices From A-Z for the Bedside Clinician (Second Edition)

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Contents

Contributors ................................................................................................... iii
   
Contents ........................................................................................................ vii
   
Forward ......................................................................................................... ix
   
Preface .......................................................................................................... xi
   
Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... xiii
   
Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice ........................................................... xv
   
Generic Medications and Brand-Name Equivalents ............................................ xxi
   
Advance Directives ......................................................................................... 3
Anemia .......................................................................................................... 11
Anorexia, Cachexia, and Nutrition Support ........................................................ 15
Anxiety ......................................................................................................... 27
Ascites .......................................................................................................... 37
Bleeding ........................................................................................................ 45
Bowel Obstruction .......................................................................................... 49
Caregiver Issues ............................................................................................. 55
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine ...................... 61
Constipation ................................................................................................... 71
Cough ........................................................................................................... 75
Cultural Competence ...................................................................................... 83
Death and Dying ............................................................................................. 89
Dehydration .................................................................................................... 95
Delirium ......................................................................................................... 99
Depression .................................................................................................... 105
Diarrhea ......................................................................................................... 111
Edema .......................................................................................................... 125
Fatigue .......................................................................................................... 131
Fever ............................................................................................................. 139
Funeral Planning ............................................................................................ 143
Grief and Bereavement .................................................................................... 151
Hiccups ......................................................................................................... 159
Infection ........................................................................................................ 165
Insomnia ........................................................................................................ 171
Lymphedema ................................................................................................. 179
Mucositis ....................................................................................................... 187
Nausea and Vomiting ...................................................................................... 193
Pain .............................................................................................................. 205
Palliative Care ................................................................................................ 211
Palliative Sedation ......................................................................................... 217
Pruritus ......................................................................................................... 223
Seizures ........................................................................................................ 231
Sexuality ....................................................................................................... 235
Skin Lesions .................................................................................................. 241
Urinary Elimination ......................................................................................... 251
Xerostomia .................................................................................................... 259
Zoster (Varicella Zoster Virus—Shingles) ........................................................... 265
   
Appendices ................................................................................................... 269
Appendix A. Polypharmacy in Palliative Care .................................................... 271
Appendix B. Principles of Pharmacokinetic Drug Interactions ............................. 277
Appendix C. Internet Resources ....................................................................... 283
   
Index ............................................................................................................. 285
   

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