Full Description
Pain Management in Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer provides healthcare professionals with holistic guidelines and whole-patient treatment philosophies that help practitioners address a patient's total needs. It is the only all-in-one resource for when the cancer patient and palliative care patient are one and the same. While other books focus on analgesics, this resource updates on how early palliative pain treatment can often be achieved by palliative chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or other methods. The myth that palliative care is only appropriate in late-stage illness persists not only among laypersons, but amongst many doctors as well.
This book provides insights into what are commonly treated as unrelated disciplines, when in fact cancer care and palliative care have much to teach each other when it comes to oncology patients.
Contents
PART I: Introduction
1. A New Era in Cancer Treatment: what has changed
2. The difference between early and late palliative care
3. The concept of total pain in palliative care
4. Pain assessment in palliative care
PART II: Pharmacological treatment of pain
5. Opioids and non-opioids in pain treatment
6. Adjuvant and new analgesics
7. The use of chemotherapy as pain treatment
8. Managing side-effects of analgesics
PART III: Interventional treatment of pain
9. Radiotherapy and brachytherapy
10. Nuclear medicine in pain treatment
11. Surgical interventions in pain treatment
12. Physical therapy in pain treatment
13. Other interventions in pain treatment
PART IV: Complementary therapies in pain management
14. Treating spiritual and psychological aspects of pain
15. Treating anxiety, dyspnea, and other conditions associated with painful stimuli
16. Virtual reality and music therapy in pain management
17. Nutrition and pain
PART V: Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
18. Head and neck and upper GI cancers
19. Lower gastrointestinal cancers
20. Hepatobiliary cancers
21. Lung and intrathoracic cancers
22. Breast cancers
23. Gynecological and urologic cancers
24. Mesenchymal cancers
25. Treating pain after cancer treatment
PART VI. Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
26. Treating pain in the End-of-Life Care
27. Treating pain in Liver and Renal Insufficiency
28. Treating pain in Children and Very Old Patients
29. Ethical dilemmas in pain management
PART VII. Future of pain treatment in palliative care
30. Future avenues in pain management
31. Implementation of guidelines in pain treatment
32. Coping with pain in patients' families and medical staff
Opioid Conversion Charts
Practical Examples
