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| View Larger Image | Palliative Medicine: Expert Consult: Online and Print | Hardcoverby T. Declan Walsh MD (Author), Augusto T. Caraceni MD (Author), Robin Fainsinger MD (Author), Kathleen M. Foley MD (Author), Paul Glare MBBS MM FRACP (Author), Cynthia Goh MD (Author), Mari Lloyd-Williams MD FRCP MRCGP (Author), Juan Nunez Olarte MD (Author), Lukas Radbruch MD (Author)
| List Price: | $195.00 | | Price: | $156.00 | | You Save: | $39.00 (20%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Saunders | | Edition: | 1 Har/Digst Edition | | Page Count: | 1,520 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 25, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 208,458th |
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Product Description
As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges. In print and online, it brings you the world's most comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of your field. You'll find the answers to the most difficult questions you face every day...so you can provide every patient with the relief they need.Equips you to provide today's most effective palliation for terminal malignant diseases . end-stage renal, cardiovascular, respiratory, and liver disorders . progressive neurological conditions . and HIV/AIDS. Covers your complete range of clinical challenges with in-depth discussions of patient evaluation and outcome assessment . ethical issues . communication . cultural and psychosocial issues . research in palliative medicine . principles of drug use . symptom control . nutrition . disease-modifying palliation . rehabilitation . and special interventions.Helps you implement unparalleled expertise and global best practices with advice from a matchless international author team.Provides in-depth guidance on meeting the specific needs of pediatric and geriatric patients. Assists you in skillfully navigating professional issues in palliative medicine such as education and training . administration . and the role of allied health professionals. Includes just enough pathophysiology so you can understand the "whys" of effective decision making, as well as the "how tos."Offers a user-friendly, full-color layout for ease of reference, including color-coded topic areas, mini chapter outlines, decision trees, and treatment algorithms.Comes with access to the complete contents of the book online, for convenient, rapid consultation from any computer.Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should online access to the web site be discontinued. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 2 reviews)
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Outstanding and must have book! by A. Ferreira (Porto Alegre - Brazil)  5 Stars
October 30, 2009
As a Medical Oncologist for the last twenty years, this is the best
book on Palliative care I have found and I am loving it!
The chapters are written in a clear, elegant and informative way by great
experts in the field of palliative care (e.g. Eduardo Bruera).
I had no difficult whatsoever in finding exactly what I need as key information
to the benefit of my patients.
I just have to say that before having personally looked at the book itself in a medical bookstore
I had seen the comments of the above reviewer in the Amazon website. This previous review scared me
to buy the book online as it was in my view too negative and, would dare to say,
does not match at all with the wonderfull book I have now in my hands.
This previous review just made me waste 3-4 months of good reading.
This is the time span until I saw the book
in a Medical Library and could go through its pages personally .
After that I just Jumped and bought it!
So, for the Medical professional who works with palliative treatment and wants the better
for his or her patients, THIS IS A MUST HAVE!
Maybe Amazon and the Editor could allow internauts to go through its pages as a sample.
This would certainly help them to see how precious this book is.
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Palliative Medicine by Palliative Doc (South Carolina)  3 Stars
October 14, 2008
As the specialty of palliative medicine matures, more and more books have been published, however, the classic Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine remains the standard by which others are compared. In Walsh's new book, palliative medicine is comprehensively covered, including several chapters not included in other textbooks. However, one problem with the book is it's fragmentation. For example, there is not a clear, comprehensive chapter on opioids--I found myself having to switch between 2 or 3 chapters to get the information I needed. Such fragmentation makes it difficult to readily use a textbook, and as a consumer, encourages me to spend my dollars elsewhere. I look forward to the 2nd edition, where I hope such fragmentation will be eliminated, making Walsh's book ostensibly one of the top in the specialty.
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| Textbook of Palliative Medicine
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| Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies
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