Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Note on drugs and abbreviations
- Section I Palliative Management
- Section II Major discomforts in advanced neurological illness
- Section III Major neurological conditions requiring palliation
- Section IV Ethical issues
- Section V Appendices
- 1 Practical aspects of home care
- 2 Characteristics of an effective palliation service
- 3 Suggested further reading
- 4 Medications referred to in the text
- Index
3 - Suggested further reading
from Section V - Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Note on drugs and abbreviations
- Section I Palliative Management
- Section II Major discomforts in advanced neurological illness
- Section III Major neurological conditions requiring palliation
- Section IV Ethical issues
- Section V Appendices
- 1 Practical aspects of home care
- 2 Characteristics of an effective palliation service
- 3 Suggested further reading
- 4 Medications referred to in the text
- Index
Summary
GENERAL TEXTS
Addington-Hall J, Higginson I (eds). Palliative Care for Non-cancer Patients. OUP, Oxford, 2001.
[Considers the care needs and service provision for a wide range of patients with terminal disease due to non-cancer conditions, including neurodegenerative disease, stroke and dementia.]
Ahmedzai SH, Muers MF (eds). Supportive Care in Respiratory Disease. OUP, Oxford, 2005.
[A recent publication that highlights the value of a palliation approach to management of another specialty area.]
Carver AC, Foley KM (eds). Palliative Care. Neurologic Clinics 2001; 19(4): 789–1044, published by WB Saunders, Philadelphia.
[A more selective text, addressing care for ALS, Huntington's, dementia, brain tumours and stroke, with reference to general management and ethical issues.]
Doyle D, Hanks GWC, Macdonald N (eds). Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. OUP, Oxford, 1999.
[A comprehensive and authoritative reference for the management of terminal illness, but with a particular emphasis on advanced cancer.]
Kite S, O'Doherty C. Palliative care. In: Raj GS, Mulley GP (eds). Elderly Medicine: A Training Guide. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
[Discusses the palliative care approach to meeting the needs of the geriatric population.]
Samuels MA (ed.). Manual of Neurologic Therapeutics, 7th edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2004.
[A didactic tightly-packed pocket book detailing management of neurological diseases, likely to prove of value to non-neurologists who wish to know what has gone before in the experience of individuals approach end-of-life care.]
Voltz R, Bernat JL, Borasio GD, Maddocks I, Oliver D, Portney RK (eds). Palliative Care in Neurology. OUP, Oxford, 2004.
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- Palliative Neurology , pp. 234 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005