PALLIATIVE MEDICINE SECRETS
Suresh Joishy
This book is about the philosophy and practice of palliative care. There are good descriptions of what palliative care is, the interdisciplinary
team, and the role of each of the members of the team. Patient-centered care is emphasized and there are good discussions on communication and ethics. Dr. Joishy has written well over half of
the book, although a variety of other health care professionals have contributed fifteen of the thirty-four chapters. The book does not set out to be a symptom control manual and, whilst the
management of pain is reasonably well covered, only a relatively small number of other physical symptoms are discussed.
This book gives a good account of what palliative care is all about and I found the question and answer format made reading it more interesting.
Roger Woodruff
Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
(May 2004)
Table of Contents
1. Palliative Care: Definitions and domains
2. Essentials of Palliative Care
3. The Interdisciplinary Team
4. The Essence of Palliative Care Nursing
5. Social Work and Palliative Care
6. Spiritual Care: Consoling, Comforting and Counselling
7. Hospice
8. Symptom Recognition
9. Approach to Symptom Control
10. A Practical Approach to Nausea and Vomiting
11. The Nature of Cancer Pain
12. Pain Assessment in Palliative Care
13. Morphine
14. Equianalgesia Demystified
15. Day-to-day use of Morphine
16. Palliative Pharmacology
17. Subcutaneous Infusion of Morphine
18. The Role of Radiotherapy
19. Complementary Medicine and Palliative Care
20. The Role of Physical Medicine
21. Constipation
22. Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Advanced Cancer
23. Surgery and Palliative Care
24. Paediatric Palliative Care
25. Family Caregivers for Palliative Care Patients at Home
26. Depression in the Terminally Ill
27. Desire for Death in the Terminally Ill
28. The Last Hours of Living
29. Communication in Palliative Care
30. Ethical Issues
31. Fatigue in Palliative Care
32. Sleepless Patients
33. Symptom Profile of Advanced Cancer Patients: Proposal for New Staging Systems
34. A Glossary for Morphine
Index
