Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine Using a practical, question-and-answer approach, Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine, 2nd Edition, helps you provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. This unique reference focuses on patient and family/caregiver-centered care, highlighting the benefits of palliative care and best practices for delivery. The highly practical, user-friendly format sets it apart from other texts in the field, with concise, readable chapters organized around clinical questions that you’re most likely to encounter in everyday care.

• Uniquely organized using a question-and-answer approach, making it easy to find answers to common questions asked by practitioners and patients.
• Up-to-date, reader-friendly chapters explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations and guidelines, communication techniques, and available resources for palliative care.
• Expanded discussions on hospice in every chapter, and a new emphasis on pediatrics, with increased material on pediatric malignancies, developmental delays, cystic fibrosis, and perinatal palliative care.
• New chapters on wellness of the palliative care practitioner, patients with opioid use disorders, telehealth in palliative care, health disparities, rural palliative care, caring for people with hematologic malignancies, integrative and alternative therapies, LGBTQ+ populations, mobile health technologies, and national palliative care implementation strategies.
• High-quality evidence gathered and reviewed by leading experts in palliative medicine, including clinicians, educators, and researchers across a broad range of disciplines.
• Numerous algorithms throughout help you make informed decisions, and “take-home” points in every chapter provide a quick summary of key content.

Contents

۱. How Should Opioids Be Started and Titrated?
۲. What Principles Should Guide Opioid Dose Conversions?
۳. How Is Patient-Controlled Analgesia Best Used to Control Pain?
۴. Which Opioids Are Safest and Most Effective in Patients With Renal or Hepatic Failure?
۵. How Should Methadone Be Started and Titrated in Opioid-Naïve and Opioid-Exposed Patients?
۶. What Is Neuropathic Pain and How Is It Best Managed?
۷. How Are Adjuvant Medications Such as Corticosteroids and NSAIDs Used for Pain Management?
۸. What Are the Approaches to Pain in Skeletal Bone Disease?
۹. When and How Should Radiotherapy Be Considered for Pain Management?
۱۰. What Principles Should Guide the Prescribing of Opioids for Noncancer Pain?
۱۱. How Does the Opioid Epidemic Impact Palliative Medicine Practice?
۱۲. How Does One Approach the Patient With an Opioid Use Disorder?
۱۳. When Should Epidural or Intrathecal Medications and Pumps Be Considered for Pain Management?
۱۴. When Should Nerve Blocks Be Used for Pain Management?
۱۵. What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in People With Cancer?
۱۶. What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in COPD?
۱۷. What Interventions Are Effective for Managing Dyspnea in Heart Failure?
۱۸. What Medications Are Effective in Preventing and Relieving Constipation in the Setting of Opioid Use?
۱۹. How Should Medications Be Initiated and Titrated to Reduce Acute and Delayed Nausea and Vomiting in the Setting of Chemotherapy?
۲۰. How Should Medications Be Initiated and Titrated to Prevent and Treat Nausea and Vomiting in Clinical Situations Unrelated to Chemotherapy?

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۶۵. What Can Be Done to Improve Outcomes for Caregivers of People With Serious Illness?
۶۶. What Is Prolonged Grief Disorder and How Can Its Likelihood Be Reduced?
۶۷. What Are Models for Delivering Palliative Care in Hospitals?
۶۸. What Models Exist for Delivering Palliative Care and Hospice in Nursing Homes?
۶۹. What Are the Models for Delivering Palliative Care in the Ambulatory Practice Setting?
۷۰. What Are the Models for Delivering Palliative Care in the Home?
۷۱. What Are the Models for Delivering Palliative Care in Rural Areas?
۷۲. How Is Palliative Care Best Integrated Into Surgical Services?
۷۳. What Models Exist to Deliver Palliative Care via Telemedicine?
۷۴. What Are National Strategies and Frameworks for Palliative Care?
۷۵. What Are Sources of Spiritual and Existential Suffering for Patients With Advanced Illness?
۷۶. What Are the Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities That Exist in Palliative Care?
۷۷. What Are the Palliative Care Needs of LGBTQ+ People?
۷۸. What Is the Evidence for Integrative and Alternative Therapies in Palliative Care?
۷۹. What Is the Evidence Supporting the Use of Mobile Health Technologies in Palliative Care?
۸۰. How Can Clinician Well-Being Be Improved and Sustained in Palliative Care?