About this title
A case-based palliative care text built around real-world scenarios with expert commentary, designed to support clinicians managing complex end-of-life care. Each case carries learning points, clinical tips, evidence base and future-advances boxes, mapped to the UK specialty training curriculum.
Intended audience
- palliative medicine trainees
- specialty registrars in palliative care
- general practitioners and hospital doctors managing end-of-life care
Subject classification
- Palliative Medicine
- Supportive Oncology
- End-of-Life Care
Scope
- complex pain and symptom management
- advance care planning and prognostication
- transfer of care between settings
- palliative care for non-cancer conditions
- psychosocial care and bereavement
- care of the dying
Chapter themes
- nausea, vomiting and hiccups
- depression in life-limiting illness
- grief and bereavement
- palliative care in heart and renal failure
- advance care planning
- care of the dying person
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Challenging Cases in Palliative Care
- Year
- 2024
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780192864741
- Catalogue authors
- Polly Edmonds