Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care: Whole-Person Adult and Pediatric Care — 2019 PDF

📘 Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care: Whole-Person Adult and Pediatric Care — 2019 PDF

🔎 About This Medical eBook

This handbook considers supportive oncology and palliative care through the needs of the whole person and family. It combines symptom management with psychosocial, spiritual and practical concerns affecting adults and children with cancer. The interdisciplinary perspective connects clinical assessment with the coordination of care and communication.

Topics covered

• Patient and caregiver experiences and the palliative-care interview.
• Team roles and care coordination.
• Neurologic, cardiac, respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms.
• Pain, sleep problems, fatigue and psychiatric symptoms.
• Psychosocial and spiritual distress.
• Sexuality, fertility, family meetings, bereavement and advance care planning.

Reading focus

The three-part structure moves from principles of whole-person care to symptom management and then to quality-of-life considerations for patients and families. This allows readers to study either an individual clinical problem or the wider framework surrounding it. The inclusion of adult and pediatric perspectives helps show where shared principles meet different developmental and family needs. The PDF reflects its 2019 publication period and is a reading resource, rather than a service that determines care choices for a particular individual.

Intended readership

Oncology professionals, primary care clinicians, nurses, psychosocial practitioners and trainees interested in supportive and palliative care. The ebook contains the handbook only. No clinical consultation, external platform subscription, continuing education enrollment, assessment service or professional certificate is included with the download.

Publication and PDF details

Ann M. Berger, Pamela S. Hinds and Christina M. Puchalski (editors). Publication year: 2019. English language. One PDF file, 344 digital pages including preliminary material. ISBN: 9780826128287.

Digital PDF

This is a digital ebook in PDF format, not a printed book. After downloading, the file can be read offline in a compatible PDF reader on a computer, tablet or phone. Digital page totals may differ from the printed pagination because front matter is included.

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