1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001663399707536

Titolo

Bioenvironmental and public health statistics / edited by P. K. Sen, C. R. Rao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : Elsevier North-Holland, 2000

ISBN

0444829008

Descrizione fisica

xxiv, 1105 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Handbook of statistics, 0169-7161 ; 18

Classificazione

AMS 62-00

AMS 62P10

Altri autori (Persone)

Sen, Pranab Kumar

Rao, Calyampudi Radhakrishna

Disciplina

362.196980727

Soggetti

Public health - Statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797792903321

Titolo

Care of the imminently dying / / edited by Judith A. Paice, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Cancer Pain Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-19-024430-5

0-19-024431-3

0-19-024429-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

HPNA palliative nursing manuals ; ; volume 7

Disciplina

616.02/9

Soggetti

Terminal care

Hospice care

Palliative treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Delirium / Debra E. Heidrich and Nancy K. English -- Dyspnea, death rattle, and cough / Deborah Dudgeon -- Urgent syndromes at the end of life / Barton T. Bobb -- Sedation for refractory symptoms / Patti Knight, Laura A. Espinosa, and Bonnie Freeman -- Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies : mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and cardiac devices / Margaret L. Campbell and Linda M. Gorman.

Sommario/riassunto

'Care of the Imminently Dying' provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death rattle, or cough, urgent syndromes that may appear the end of life, palliative sedation, and the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies.