Overview

Rooted in everyday hospital medicine, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians addresses the challenges of delivering complex care to patients living with serious illnesses. Spanning emergency medicine, internal medicine, surgery and various subspecialties, each chapter reads like a story, comparing usual care with a step-by-step palliative-based approach. This case-based book features a multidisciplinary, palliative-trained authorship, including neurologists, nephrologists, emergency physicians, surgeons, intensivists, and obstetricians. Divided into four parts, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians outlines common clinical scenarios across settings and specialties to highlight unmet needs of patients with potentially terminal illnesses. Each case is broken down into the usual standard approach, and delves into detail regarding different palliative interventions that can be appropriate in those scenarios. These are meant to be practice changing; down to the actual words used to communicate with patients. In addition to the book’s focus on the principles of palliative care and the “art” of treating the patient, approaches to communication with the patient’s families for the best long-term outcomes are discussed.  Concise and pragmatic, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians is meant to be practice changing. It provides readers with both a new conceptual framework, as well as actual words to communicate with patients and medication doses for symptom management. It is an invaluable resource for non-palliative trained clinicians who wish to strengthen their palliative care skills.

Full Product Details

Author:   Kate Aberger ,  David Wang
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.479kg
ISBN:  

9783030444136

ISBN 10:   3030444139
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   10 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Hospital World                 A. Emergency Department                                 i. The Mundane                                 ii. The Game-changer                                 iii. The Frequent flier                                 iv. The Extreme                 B. Surgery and Trauma                                 i. Sudden accident/death                                 ii. Geriatric                                 iii. Traumatic Brain Injury                                 iv. Hip Fracture TBA                 C. Intensive Care Unit                                 i. Withdrawal of life support                                 ii. TBA                 D. Internal Medicine – general inpatient                                 i. Unable to swallow                                 ii. Get the DNR                                 iii. Family conflict – I don’t care what her advanced directive says!                                 iv. Don’t tell him that he has cancer E. Outpatient World - Specialists and subspecialists                 A. Cardiology                                 i. 1-2 cases                                 B. Neurology                                                 i. 1-2 cases                                 C. Oncology                                                 i. 1-2 cases                                 D. Pulmonary                                                 i. 1-2 cases                                 E. Renal/GI                                                 i. 1-2 cases                                 F. Pediatrics                                                 i. 1-2 cases   3. Special circumstances                 A. Pediatric Emergency Medicine/Trauma                 B. Guardianship                 C. Pain Management                 D. Persistent Vegetative State                 E. Substance abuse

Reviews

I am full of admiration and hope that this book succeeds. ... People who work in palliative care will enjoy it and get a few pointers about working alongside palliative care-sympathetic specialists from other fields. (Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews, hospicecare.com, Vol. 22 (1), January, 2021)

The audience is busy frontline (e.g., practicing) clinicians. It is geared specifically toward physicians and other physician extenders such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Residents and medical students as well as nursing and other healthcare learners will find this useful and easy to read. ... It would be a good addition to any clinic, hospital, or healthcare library as well as busy clinician offices. (Belinda Setters, Doody's Book Reviews, April 2, 2021) I am full of admiration and hope that this book succeeds. ... People who work in palliative care will enjoy it and get a few pointers about working alongside palliative care-sympathetic specialists from other fields. (Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews, hospicecare.com, Vol. 22 (1), January, 2021)

“I am full of admiration and hope that this book succeeds. … People who work in palliative care will enjoy it and get a few pointers about working alongside palliative care-sympathetic specialists from other fields.” (Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews, hospicecare.com, Vol. 22 (1), January, 2021)

Author Information

Kate Aberger, Director of Palliative and Geriatric Medicine, St. Joseph’s Health, Paterson, NJ, USA. Attending Physician, Emergency, Department Robert Wood Johnson, University Hospital, Somerset, NJ, USA. David Wang, Director of Palliative Medicine, Scripps Health, San Diego, CA, USA.

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