Editors:
- Case-based for ideal learning scenarios
- Includes specialist-specific chapters (emergency medicine, surgeons, and critical care physicians)
- Geared specifically to fill a much-needed area, non-palliative care physicians
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Emergency Medicine
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Front Matter
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Inpatient Medicine
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About this book
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.
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)
Editors and Affiliations
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Director of Palliative and Geriatric Medicine, St. Joseph’s Health, Paterson, USA
Kate Aberger
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Director of Palliative Medicine, Scripps Health, San Diego, USA
David Wang
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians
Book Subtitle: Case Vignettes in Everyday Hospital Medicine
Editors: Kate Aberger, David Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44414-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44413-6Published: 10 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44414-3Published: 09 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 227
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Palliative Medicine, Emergency Medicine