Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care

1. The development of hospice and palliative care
2. Palliative care as a public health issue
3. Palliative care as a primary care issue
4. The future of palliative medicine
5. Palliative care and supportive care
6. Ethics in the practice of palliative care
7. Undergraduate education in palliative medicine
8. Graduate education for nonspecialists
9. Challenges of research in palliative and supportive medicine
10. The population: Who are the subjects in palliative medicine research?
11. Study designs in palliative medicine
12. Outcome measurement in palliative care
13. Ethics in palliative care research
14. Adoption of palliative care: The engineering of organizational change
15. Principles of measuring the financial outcomes of specialist palliative care programs
16. Population-based needs assessment for patients and those important to them, such as families
17. Models of palliative care delivery
18. Home palliative care
19. Palliative care unit
20. Multidimensional patient assessment
21. Tools for pain and symptom assessment
22. Quality of life assessment in palliative care
23. Pathophysiology of chronic pain
24. Causes and mechanisms of pain in palliative care patients
25. Opioid analgesics
26. Assessment and management of opioid side effects
27. Adjuvant analgesic medications
28. Alternative routes for systemic opioid delivery
29. Interventional pain procedures in palliative care
30. Pain management in pediatrics
31. Pain in the older adult
32. Neuropathic pain
33. Bone cancer pain and skeletal complications
34. Breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients
35. Somatic symptoms, symptom clusters, and symptom burden
36. Pain in patients with alcohol and drug dependence
37. Cachexia–anorexia syndrome
38. Nausea/vomiting
39. Constipation
40. Jaundice
41. Malignant bowel obstruction
42. Endoscopic treatment of digestive symptoms
43. Mechanism, assessment, and management of fatigue
44. Breathlessness
45. Other respiratory symptoms (cough, hiccup, and secretions)
46. Depression/anxiety
47. Delirium
48. Sleep disturbances in advanced cancer patients
49. Counseling in palliative care
50. Hope in end-of-life care
51. Dehydration and rehydration
52. Fever, sweats, and hot flashes
53. Pruritus
54. Infections in palliative care
55. Pediatric palliative wound care: The unique anatomy and physiology of neonatal skin
56. Fistulas
57. Assessment and management of lymphedema
58. Hypercalcemia
59. Hemorrhage
60. Spinal cord compression
61. Clinical features and management of superior vena cava syndrome
62. Acute pain and management
63. Suicide
64. Cancer: Radiotherapy
65. Chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted agents, and immunotherapy
66. Integrative medicine in supportive and palliative care
67. Neurological diseases
68. End-stage congestive heart failure
69. Geriatric palliative care
70. Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
71. Other infectious diseases: Malaria, rabies, tuberculosis
72. Practical resources for palliative care development in countries with limited resources: An IAHPC perspective
73. Prognostic indicators of survival
74. Palliative sedation
75. Staff stress and burnout in palliative care
76. Spiritual care
77. Family caregivers and cultural sensitivity
78. Bereavement
79. Children of palliative care patients
80. Neutropenic fever
81. Side effects of radiation therapy
82. Cardiac and pulmonary toxicities of treatments
83. Oral complications of cancer therapies
84. Dermatologic side effects
85. Peripheral neuropathy and neurotoxicity
86. Sex and sexuality
87. Managing communication challenges with patients and families
88. Supportive and palliative care for patients with HIV infection
89. Implantable cardiac devices
90. Supportive care for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease
91. Palliative care in the emergency department
92. Optimal Symptom Management in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
93. The end of therapy: Building the psychosocial and spiritual bridges to survivorship
94. Rehabilitation in the acute and chronic care setting
95. Long-term cognitive function
96. Gonadal functions and reproductive health
97. Pulmonary rehabilitation

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