Surgical palliative care

by Dunn, Geoffrey P. Johnson, Alan G., (Alan Godfrey)

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Describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. A first section deals with general issues, from quality of life measurement to spirituality. The second illustrates their application in different specialties of surgery.

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Full title :Surgical palliative care / edited by Geoffrey P. Dunn and Alan G. Johnson.

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Publication Date:2004.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:1423700856, 9781423700852, 9780191730184, 0191730181
oclc:ocm60625553
LC Classification:RD31.5
Dewey Decimal:616/.029/02/4617

Intro; Contents; Foreword; List of contributors; Part I; 1 Introduction: is surgical palliative care a paradox?; 2 Selection and preparation of patients for surgical palliation; 3 The ethics of interventional care; 4 The physiological response to surgical trauma; 5 Psychological response to surgery; 6 Spirituality and surgery; 7 Interdisciplinary care; 8 Quality of life issues in palliative surgery; 9 Anaesthesia and perioperative pain management; Part II; 10 Symptom palliation of diseases of the head and neck (including dentistry); 11 The surgical relief of the symptomatic chest

12 Surgery for the control of symptoms in the abdomen13 Symptom control in urological malignancy; 14 Wound and reconstructive problems in advanced disease; 15 Neurosurgical palliation; 16 The role of the ophthalmologist in advanced disease; 17 Perspectives from the developing world and diverse societies; 18 Epilogue: a message to all surgeons; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

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Chirurgie General Surgery Health & Biological Sciences MEDICAL -- Terminal Care Medicine Pain -- surgery Palliative Care Palliative Care -- methods Palliative treatment Soins palliatifs Surgery Surgery -- General and By Type surgery (health care function) Surgery & Anesthesiology Surgical Procedures, Operative -- metho…