Palliative Care In Neurology

Palliative Care Is The Duty Of Every Neurologist: However, To Date, This Has Not Been A Standard Feature Of Neurological Practice Or Training. This Book Helps Define A New Field, Namely Palliative Care In Neurology. It Brings Together All Necessary Information For Neurologists Caring For A Patient With Advance Disease. Palliative Care Is An Approach To The Management Of Patients With Life-threatening Illness That Attempts To Enhance Comfort, Relieve Psychosocial And Spiritual Distress, Assure Respect For Decision Making, Provide Support For The Family, And Prepare The Patient And Family For The End Of Life. Basic Principles Of Palliative Care And Specific Ethical Issues (such As Euthanasia, Food And Hydration And Advance Directives) Are Covered. The Needs Of Populations With Specific Neurological Disorders Are Described And The Management Of Symptoms That Are Common To All Is Explored In Detail. Each Chapter Introduces Its Topic Using A Case Report That May Be Used Directly For Teaching Purposes. 1. Palliative Care / David Oliver -- 2. Palliative Care In Stroke / Gerhard F. Hamann, Angie Rogers And Julia Addington-hall -- 3. Demyelinating Disease / A. D. Macleod And Fabio Formaglio -- 4. Neoplasms / Kendra Peterson -- 5. Parkinson's Disease And Related Disorders / Chris G. Clough And Anna Blockley -- 6. Dementias / Ladislav Volicer -- 7. Infectious Disease / Jeanette Meadway -- 8. Diseases Of Motor Nerves / David Oliver And Gian Domenico Borasio -- 9. Muscular Dystrophy And Related Myopathies / Ian Maddocks And Leon Stern -- 10. Epilepsy / Sabine Weil And Soheyl Noachtar -- 11. Pediatric Neurology / Eric Bouffet, Phyllis Mcgee And Deryk Beal -- 12. Persistent Vegetative State / Rudolf Topper And Wilhelm Nacimiento -- 13. Quadriplegia And Paraplegia / Walter A. Ceranski -- 14. Locked-in Syndrome / Heinz Lahrmann And Wolfgang Grisold -- 15. Spasticity / Johannes Noth And Gereon R. Fink -- 16. Dysphagia / Mario Prosiegel, Edith Wagner-sonntag And Gian Domenico Borasio -- 17. Communication Impairment / Amanda Scott And Margaret Foulsum -- 18. Epileptic Seizures And Myoclonus / Sabine Weil And Soheyl Noachtar -- 19. Pain / Eugenia Daniela Hord And Russell K. Portenoy -- 20. Nausea And Vomiting / Sebastiano Mercadante -- 21. Fatigue / Lynne I. Wagner, David Cella And Nicholas A. Doninger -- 22. Acute Confusional State / Augusto Caraceni And Marco Bosisio -- 23. Respiratory Symptoms / Gian Domenico Borasio And D. Kaub-wittemer -- 24. Bowel Symptoms / Nigel P. Sykes -- 25. Urological Symptoms / Darshan K. Shah And Gopal H. Badlani -- 26. Psychiatric Symptoms / Alexandre Berney And Friedrich Stiefel -- 27. Neurological Emergencies / Janet Hardy And Donal Martin -- 28. Pressure Ulcers / Paul W. Walker -- 29. Stomatitis / Paul Rousseau -- 30. Managing The Dying Patient / Nigel P. Sykes -- 31. Personal Identity And Palliative Care / Carlo A. Defanti -- 32. Food And Hydration / Janet Hardy, Helen White, Louise Henry And David Oliver -- 33. Sedation In The Imminently Dying Patient / Raymond Voltz And Kathleen M. Foley -- 34. Advance Directives / Akira Akabayashi, Brian Taylor Slingsby And Raymond Voltz -- 35. Refusal And Withdrawal Of Treatment / James L. Bernat -- 36. Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia / Alan Carver And Kathleen M. Foley -- 37. Informed Consent / James L. Bernat -- 38. Psychological Aspects / Richard Sloan -- 39. Spirituality / Robert M. Taylor And Sharol L. Herr -- 40. Cultural Aspects Of Care / David Oliviere And David Oliver -- 41. Palliative Care Education For Neurologists / Ian Maddocks -- 42. So, Here's What's Happened In My Life Since Last April / Ben-joshua Jaffee. Edited By Raymond Voltz ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.