{"product_id":"practical-palliative-care-beulah-j-derrick-9798187490653","title":"Practical Palliative Care: Evidence-Based Symptom Management, Pain Control, and Goals-of-Care Communication for Dyspnea, Nausea, and Delirium in Serio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA complete working reference for the symptoms, conversations, and decisions that define palliative practice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerious illness rarely presents one problem at a time. A patient with advanced heart failure is breathless at rest, nauseated from a new medication, and confused overnight. The family wants to talk about what happens next. Every one of those threads needs an answer, and most of them need it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePractical Palliative Care\u003c\/i\u003e is built for that reality. Across 51 chapters, it moves from the philosophy and public health foundations of the field through detailed symptom management, team-based care delivery, disease-specific chapters, and the emergencies and ethical questions that arrive without warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is inside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSymptom assessment and management in depth.\u003c\/b\u003e Pain assessment and pharmacologic management, adjuvant analgesia and interventional techniques, breathlessness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, gastroparesis, constipation, bowel obstruction, cachexia, mucositis, wounds and lymphedema, delirium, psychiatric symptoms, and the last days of life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe conversations that carry the most weight.\u003c\/b\u003e Breaking difficult news, advance care planning and shared decision-making, prognostication, spirituality and dignity, and sexuality and intimacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCare across every setting.\u003c\/b\u003e Home and primary care, hospital and acute inpatient, the ICU, residential and aged-care, and rural practice, along with the roles of generalists, specialists, nurses, caregivers, and volunteers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCondition-specific guidance.\u003c\/b\u003e Cancer, heart failure, COPD and interstitial lung disease, neurodegenerative disease and stroke, dementia, kidney, liver, and endocrine disease, multimorbidity, frailty in older people, pediatric palliative care, and intellectual disability along with cultural and Indigenous perspectives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEmergencies and ethics.\u003c\/b\u003e Metabolic, hematologic, structural, neurologic, psychiatric, and social emergencies, plus ethical frameworks, palliative sedation, assisted dying, and contested decisions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFour quick-reference appendices.\u003c\/b\u003e Symptom management, palliative care emergencies, assessment tools and frameworks, and ethical and decision-making frameworks, along with a glossary, abbreviations list, and full index.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho it is for: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePalliative medicine physicians, fellows, and residents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHospice and palliative care nurses and nurse practitioners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOncologists, intensivists, geriatricians, and internists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClinical pharmacists and physician assistants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial workers, chaplains, and allied health team members\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudents preparing for palliative and hospice care rotations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters are written to be read on their own. Look up delirium at 2 a.m. without needing the chapter before it. Read the goals-of-care chapter before a family meeting. Use the appendices when there is no time to read anything longer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalliative care is not what happens when treatment stops. It is what happens alongside it, and it deserves the same rigor as any other specialty. This book treats it that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beulah J. 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