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Title:
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RESPIRATORY DISEASE
FROM ADVANCED DISEASE TO BEREAVEMENT |
By: |
Anna Spathis, Helen E. Davies, Sara Booth |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£49.49 |
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£43.30 |
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ISBN 10: |
0199564035 |
ISBN 13: |
9780199564033 |
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Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
3 February, 2011 |
Series: |
Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care |
Pages: |
320 |
Description: |
The third book in the palliative care strand of the Oxford Specialist Handbooks demonstrates how palliative medicine and respiratory medicine physicians can combine their expertise to offer the best possible quality of care for patients dying from advanced respiratory disease. |
Synopsis: |
Respiratory disease is the second most common cause of death worldwide. Patients with advanced non-malignant disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, have similar or even greater health care needs than those with advanced lung cancer. Uncontrolled symptoms, distress, and social isolation contribute to the poor quality of life experienced by such patients. This book provides practical guidance to professionals who care for patients with advanced respiratory disease. It gives evidence-based advice on a wide range of topics, including management of respiratory and non-respiratory symptoms, chronic respiratory failure, and respiratory emergencies. Recognition of when a patient may be approaching the end of life can be particularly challenging in patients with advanced respiratory disease. Ways to facilitate prognostication are covered, along with the significant communication and ethical challenges that this phase of life can present.Written by a respiratory specialist and two palliative medicine physicians, this book will be of great value to doctors, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals working in respiratory medicine and in palliative care, both in relation to everyday clinical practice as well as meeting the requirements for postgraduate exams. |
Illustrations: |
6 black and white line drawings and 3 black and white halftones |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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