PALLIATIVE CARE CONSULTATIONS IN HAEMATO-ONCOLOGY OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, 3rd edition
Sara Booth and Eduardo Bruera (Eds)
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Oxford University Press, 2003
254 pp
ISBN 0-19-852808-6
RRP £29.95 $US45
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This is the first volume in Oxford’s new Palliative Care Consultations Series, dedicated to the palliative care of patients in the acute setting. It is intended to give practical advice on
difficult symptom control problems, which are seen in the context of hospital palliative care. As the divide between haemato-oncology and palliative care continues to blur, there is an increasing
need for people in the two fields to know more about what the other does, and how they do it.
For those who work in palliative care, this is a very useful guide to the palliation of symptoms in patients with haematological
disease and provides useful background information about the disease processes. For those who work in haematology, there is useful information about symptom palliation and also about the palliative
approach to patient care, stressing teamwork and communication. The chapter on “Changing the emphasis from active curative care to active palliative care in haematology patients” should be required
reading for haematologists and their trainees. The coverage is good except there is no chapter on symptom palliation for patients with the chronic myeloproliferative syndromes.
This is a useful book that should be available both in the haematology department and in the palliative care ward.
Roger Woodruff
Haemato-Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician,
Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
(January 2004)
Author Information
Sara Booth is Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Palliative Care Service, Cambridge, UK
Eduardo Bruera is Professor of the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer
Centre, Houston, Texas, USA
Table of Contents
1. Management of myeloma
Craig
2. Management of lymphoma
Bowles & Marcus
3. Management of acute leukaemias
Pavlovsky, Desmery & Dignani
4. Myelodysplastic syndromes
Mufti & Raj
5. Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Balsdon & Craig
6. Palliative care for patients undergoing intensive therapy
Closs
7. Mouth care for haematology patients
Finlay, Amsler & Wade
8. The Essentials of symptom control in haemato-oncology
Spathis
9. When the opioid fails: managing the patient with severe neuropathic pain
Vielhaber & Portenoy
10. Changing the emphasis from active curative care to active palliative care in haematology patients
Jeffrey & Owen
11. The significance and management of anaemia in palliative care patients
Atoyebi, Littlewood & Twycross
12. Thrombotic and bleeding complications in haematological malignancies
Hunt & Noble
13. The management of sweating
Miller
14. Home care for terminally ill haematology patients
Moth & Alban-Jones
15. The Last Days of Life
Hicks
