Palliative Care Consultations in Haemato-oncology

Eduardo Bruera editor Jenny Craig editor Sara Booth editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:2nd Oct '03

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Palliative Care Consultations in Haemato-oncology cover

Practical, accessible guidance on dealing with the difficult symptoms that arise in the haemato-oncological patient.

This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access and practical advice on clinical problems which may arise in the management of haemato-oncological patients. These problems may be rare or common but all are difficult to manage. This book provides current guidelines for management from an authoritative team of palliative care specialists, oncologists and haematologists.Palliative Care Consultations in Haemato-oncology is the first book in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. Patients with haematological malignancy often undergo the most rigorous treatments, usually requiring long inpatient stays at tertiary referral centres far removed from friends, families and everyday life. The treatment for some malignancies is palliative, although aggressive, from diagnosis and there can be a number of difficult symptom-control problems all of which are covered in this book. This volume draws on the expertise of the haematologist who is vital if the patient is to have optimal care and provides practical advice in an easily accessible form so that the book can be read and referred to on the ward, or before a domiciliary visit.

Whilst the target audience is the hospital palliative care team, this concise and reasonably priced volume would undoubtedly also be valuable to doctors and specialist nurses in haematology... Overall I would certainly recommend this book. * Palliative Medicine, 18 *

ISBN: 9780198528081

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm

Weight: 399g

268 pages