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Internal medicine issues in palliative cancer care [E-Book]

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Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199330324
0199330328

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

QZ 266

Online resources:

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust OpenAthens account holders click here for access

Contents:

Pulmonary -- Cardiovascular -- Nephrology and metabolic abnormalities -- Gastrointestinal -- Hematological disorders -- Infections -- Endocrine -- Rheumatology -- Neuro-psychiatric.

Summary: "Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric"--Publisher's description

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic book	Stenhouse Library		Link to resource	Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pulmonary -- Cardiovascular -- Nephrology and metabolic abnormalities -- Gastrointestinal -- Hematological disorders -- Infections -- Endocrine -- Rheumatology -- Neuro-psychiatric.

"Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric"--Publisher's description

Online resource; title from resource home page (Oxford Medicine Online, viewed January 29, 2021).

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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