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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016] |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (105 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.02/9 |
Soggetto topico: | Terminal care |
Hospice care | |
Palliative treatment | |
Persona (resp. second.): | PaiceJudith A. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Care of the imminently dying |
ISBN: | 0-19-024430-5 |
0-19-024431-3 | |
0-19-024429-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797792903321 |
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