Product Description: Breathlessness is increasingly recognised as a common, disabling symptom of many advanced diseases and one that is very difficult to treat. There is now an understanding that a multi-disciplinary approach to management can make a significant impact on the severity of the symptom improving both the patient's and their carers? quality of life...read more

Product Description: The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at those individuals working in an acute hospital cancer center and/or tertiary referral center. Books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common, but difficult...read more

Product Description: Dyspnoea (breathlessness) is an uncomfortable awareness of breathing that occurs in approximately 30-75 per cent of terminal cancer patients. It is one of the most distressing symptoms for both patients and family members and can seriously impact on quality of life...read more

Product Description: This is the third 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. There are few more distressing problems for patients and families than the development of a primary or secondary brain tumor...read more

Product Description: This is the second 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. In gynaecology there are a number of symptoms which cause great distress to the individual and their families, and perplexity to the physicians and nurses caring for them...read more

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Product Description: The RCA has issued guidelines to formalize training for anesthetic trainees. At the basic stage of their training all will be trained in managing mainly acute pain relief, and during higher level training the emphasis will be on chronic pain relief...read more

Top designers and illustrators reveal their secrets to creating dazzling computer graphics through time-saving shortcuts, special effects, and inventive illustration ideas with such programs as Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, and Painter. Original. (All Users). (view table of contents)