| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Supportive care series |
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Supportive care series.
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| Contents |
Changing patterns of renal replacement therapy -- Concept of supportive care for the renal patient -- Planning a renal palliative care programme and its components -- Advance care planning in patients with end-stage renal disease -- What determines a good outcome? The selection of patients for renal replacement therapy -- Health-related quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease -- Symptoms in renal disease: their epidemiology, assessment, and management -- Management of pain in renal failure -- Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with advanced renal disease -- Spiritual care of the renal patient -- Support of the home-dialysis patient -- Initiation, withdrawal, and withholding of dialysis -- Clinical -- Communicating with patients and family -- Conservative management of end-stage renal disease -- End-stage renal disease in the older person -- Death and end-of-life care in advanced kidney disease |
| Summary |
An international group of contributors provides a comprehensive evidence-based overview of supportive care for the nephrology patient, emphasising the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care and the issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kidneys -- Diseases -- Treatment
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Kidney Failure, Chronic -- therapy
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Kidney Failure, Chronic -- psychology
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Palliative Care -- methods
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Terminal Care -- methods
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Genitourinary & STDs.
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Kidneys -- Diseases -- Treatment
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Nierenkrankheit
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Therapie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chambers, E. Joanna.
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Germain, Michael (Michael J.)
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Brown, Edwina A.
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| LC no. |
2010287520 |
| ISBN |
9780191575754 |
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0191575755 |
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9780191730139 |
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0191730130 |
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9786613894007 |
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6613894001 |
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1283581558 |
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9781283581554 |
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