TEXTBOOK OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE

The second edition of the Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care builds upon the strengths of the previous edition, providing an alternative approach to this ever-growing specialty. In the absence of an international curriculum for the study of palliative medicine, this textbook continues to provide the essential guidance for those either embarking upon a career in palliative medicine or already established in the field.
With additional chapters covering all the different aspects of supportive care, the second edition expands upon its unique evidence-based, multi-professional approach and global perspective ensured by the international team of editors and contributing authors. It features an entirely new section on the assessment and management of effects of medical treatments as well as a new section on rehabilitation and survivorship. This edition also contains new material on chemotherapy- and radiation therapy-induced emesis, geriatric palliative care, and hormonal therapy and targeted agents.
With an emphasis on providing palliative service anywhere in the world, including the need to provide such care in developing nations, the book is an ideal complement to the narrative approach of other texts on the topic. It is essential reading for all palliative care physicians in training and in practice, as well as palliative and support care nurses and other health professionals on the palliative care team.
Features
- Approaches the topic from a global perspective with particular emphasis on practice in Europe and North America
- Uses a multidisciplinary approach, reflecting the varying needs of the palliative care team
- Features a new section on the assessment and management of effects of medical treatments as well as a new section on rehabilitation and survivorship
- Includes new information on chemotherapy- and radiation therapy-induced emesis, geriatric palliative care, and hormonal therapy and targeted agents
- Covers palliative care in less developed nations.

Editor(s) Bio
- Eduardo Bruera, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
- Irene J. Higginson, BMed Sci, BMBS, FFPHM, PhD, FRCP, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, UK
- Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Palliative Studies, San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care, San Diego, California, USA
- Tatsuya Morita, MD, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Seirei Hospice, and Palliative Care Team, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Table of Contents
The development of palliative medicine
Bioethics
Problems and challenges of global research
Education
Research and audit
Organization and governance
Overview of assessment
Pain
Gastrointestinal systems
Fatigue
Respiratory systems
Neuropsychiatrics
Assessment and management of other problems
Emergencies in palliative medicine
Specific conditions and situations
Interdisciplinary issues
The assessment and management of effects of medical treatments
Rehabilitation and survivorship
Index