Overview
- Provides a comprehensive review of palliative care specific to neurological diseases
- Written by leaders in the fields of multiple disciplines to provide best practices from a range of viewpoints
- Focuses on providing inclusive palliative care for all stages of neurological illness
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Disease and Symptom-Specific Considerations
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Improving Communication and Treatment Decisions
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Crosscutting Issues in Palliative Care
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About this book
This comprehensive guide thoroughly covers all aspects of neuropalliative care, from symptom-specific considerations, to improving communication between clinicians, patients and families. Neuropalliative Care: A Guide to Improving the Lives of Patients and Families Affected by Neurologic Disease addresses clinical considerations for diseases such as dementia, multiple sclerosis, and severe acute brain injury, as well discussing the other challenges facing palliative care patients that are not currently sufficiently met under current models of care. This includes methods of effective communication, supporting the caregiver, how to make difficult treatment decisions in the face of uncertainty, managing grief, guilt and anger, and treating the pain itself. Written by leaders in the field of neuropalliative care, this book is an exceptional, well-rounded resource of neuropalliative care, serving as a reference for all clinicians caring for patients with neurological disease and their families: neurologists and palliative care specialists, physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, as well as trainees in these areas.
Reviews
“The authors have done a marvelous job identifying common gaps in the care of patients with neurological illness and offer practical advice on addressing those gaps through a palliative care approach.” (Nina Leyson Martinez, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 22 , 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Claire J. Creutzfeldt, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Washington Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, WA
USA
Benzi M. Kluger, MD, MS, FAAN
Professor of Neurology
Chief Neurology Supportive and Palliative Care Section
Department of Neurology
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO
USA
Robert G. Holloway, MD, MPH, FAAN
Professor and Edward A. and Alma Vollertsen Rykenboer ChairDepartment of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuropalliative Care
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Improving the Lives of Patients and Families Affected by Neurologic Disease
Editors: Claire J. Creutzfeldt, Benzi M. Kluger, Robert G. Holloway
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93215-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93214-9Published: 16 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06613-0Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93215-6Published: 01 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 312
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Palliative Medicine, Neurology