Students of palliative care and professionals at all levels need an awareness of the delicate ethical and emotional issues concerned, and of the evolving approaches to available therapies. This text examines systems of care in hospices and at home, emphasizing the needs of the whole person in dying patients. It covers the ethics of palliative care, communicating with dying patients and their relatives, and meeting their psychological and spiritual needs, as well as pain and symptom management, including drug profiles.

This practical work has clinical guidelines, and advice on controlling symptoms, as well as showing doctors and carers how to provide physical and psychological comfort. It helps the clinician to develop a scientific approach to managing symptoms.

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Product Description: Drawing on personal clinical experience in palliative care, and reflecting current preferred practice, Robert Twycross provides a framework that enables the clinician to develop a scientific approach to managing advanced cancer symptoms...read more

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