Current Perspectives and Future Directions in Palliative Medicine

✍ Scribed by Eduardo Bruera (auth.), Kenji Eguchi, Jean Klastersky, Ronald Feld (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Tokyo
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 218
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Intractable illnesses such as advanced cancer, AIDS, and chronic progressive neurological diseases present health-care professionals with an array of symptoms and ethical issues that demand extensive exploration and consideration. As the quest for advances in symptomatology continues, it is imperative to disseminate and integrate the knowledge currently available in palliative medicine. The International Symposium on Current Perspectives and Future Directions in Palliative Medicine was held in Tokyo in October 1997 to provide health-care professionals with a multidisciplinary approach for improving comprehensive palliative care. With invited speakers from North America, Europe, and Japan, the symposium focused on standard management and clinical trials of control of symptoms such as pain and cachexia, ethics in palliative medicine, the economics of health care, quality-of-life research, management of depression, and patient education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages ii-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Recent Research in Pain and Cachexia in Advanced Cancer and AIDS....Pages 3-15
Multidisciplinary Approach to Pain Control....Pages 17-23
Malignant intestinal obstruction....Pages 25-32
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
The Treatment of Chronic Nausea in Patients with Advanced Cancer....Pages 37-41
Therapy of Febrile Neutropenia: An Algorithm for Current Clinical Attitudes Taking into Account Cost Benefit....Pages 43-53
Alleviation of Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Cancer: Usefulness of Opioid....Pages 55-61
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Depression in Patients with Advanced Cancer....Pages 67-76
Depression in HIV-Infected Adults: Newer Concepts....Pages 77-82
Euthanasia, Social Policy and Empirical Data....Pages 83-92
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: A Flat Country On A Slippery Slope?....Pages 97-105
Evaluation of Do-Not-Resuscitate Policy in Japan....Pages 107-120
Ethical Dilemmas and Advance Directives in Japan....Pages 121-127
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Health Economics of Palliative Therapy....Pages 133-147
Economic Evaluation of Health Care for Chronic Diseases....Pages 149-154
Recent Trend and Problems of Health Economics in Japan: Application of Clinical Economics to the Treatment for Cancers and Intractable Diseases....Pages 155-166
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Quality of Life Evaluation in Chronic Illness Across Cultures....Pages 171-175
Quality of Life in Palliative Medicine: Current Status and Problems of QOL Research in Japan....Pages 177-185
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Complementary Medicine....Pages 191-202
Support with Information, Education and Counselling in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS....Pages 203-212
Patients’ Perceptions of Palliation in Japan....Pages 213-222
Back Matter....Pages 225-225

✦ Subjects

Medicine/Public Health, general

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