M. Watson – Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (Second edition)

Автор: M. Watson
Название книги: Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (Second edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 1078
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care covers all aspects of palliative care in a concise and succinct format suited to busy professionals who need to access key information in their daily care of patients.

This new edition is revised throughout, with an additional emphasis on the nursing aspects of Palliative Care. The authors have included new sections on international palliative care, self care and liaison palliative care in acute hospitals. There is also extended material on the use of antibiotics, palliative care research and quality of life issues.

The second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care continues to be an invaluable resource for all health professionals working with adults, children and families with palliative care needs.

The fi rst edition of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care has been
warmly received. We have been encouraged by colleagues to make the
material presented here more relevant to non-medical readers. We therefore
welcome to our team, Jo Wells, who is a nurse consultant in palliative
care. We have added new sections on antibiotics, increased emphasis
on non-malignant disease, learning disabilities, palliative care in developing
countries and communication. All the chapters of the fi rst edition have
been reviewed and many have been completely rewritten.
We hope that the result will be a Handbook which is useful to the
whole of the multiprofessional team and will achieve a better balance than
its predecessor. Although the Handbook is somewhat larger than the fi rst
edition, we feel that this is a refl ection of the rapid changes and progress
of this fi eld of clinical practice in a relatively short period.
The aim of the Handbook remains as originally stated. We would like
to provide a readily accessible source of help to all those who care for
people who cannot be cured. This will include generalists and those
whose specialty is not palliative care. We hope that the Handbook may
also be a useful ready reference for those engaged in full-time palliative,
hospice or end-of-life care. We remain proud to be associated with the
Oxford University Press Handbook series, and are well aware of the heavy
responsibility which this confers.
We regard the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine as the parent text
for much of the material in this Handbook. There are various references
throughout to the current, third edition. However, readers may need to be
aware that a new fourth edition is in preparation, and should be available
later in 2009.