This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Eric Widera, is devoted to Palliative Care. Articles in this important issue include: Hospice and Palliative Care: An Overview; Goals of Care Conversations in Palliative Care: A Practical Guide; The Art and Science of Prognostication in Palliative Care; Recognizing and Managing Polypharmacy in Advanced Illness; Pain Management in those with Serious Illness; Management of Grief, Depression, and Suicidal Thoughts in those with Serious Illness; Management of Respiratory Symptoms in those with Serious Illness; Management of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Advanced Illness; Management of Urgent Medical Conditions at the End of Life; Delirium at the End of Life; Options of Last Resort: Palliative Sedation, Physician Aid in Dying and Voluntary Cessation of Eating and Drinking; Cannabis for Symptom Management; and Self-care of Physicians Caring for Patients with Serious Illness.
Palliative Care and Population Management Utilization of Palliative Care in Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Lori Jean ... As we understand the complexity of the lived experience of life with chronic medical conditions we have come to ...
POSTOPERATIVE INPATIENT CARE OF OLDER ADULTS Multidisciplinary Inpatient Care Team The foundation of high-quality ... now been developed that activate geriatric protocols beginning in the emergency department at the time of admission.
2. Goldstein NE, Morrison RS. Evidence-based practice of palliative medicine. Saunders: Elsevier; 2012. p. 2–6. 3. Lewis VR, Eti S. Assessment and management of chronic pain in the seriously ill. Primary care: clinics in office practice ...
When treatment becomes trauma: defining, preventing, and transforming medical trauma. Paper based on a program presented at the American Counseling Association Conference. Cincinnati (OH), March 24, 2013. 77. Davis H, Irwin P, ...
In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Louis J. Marino, Jr. and George Zubenko bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Screening for Prostate Cancer Sigrid V. Carlsson, MD, PhD, MPH a,b,c, Andrew J. Vickers, PhD d,* KEYWORDS Prostate cancer ... U01 CA199338-02), the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers.
Radiology of small bowel obstruction: contemporary approach and controversies. ... Cousins SE, Tempest E, Feuer DJ. Surgery for the resolution of symptoms in malignant bowel obstruction in advanced gynaecological and gastrointestinal ...
Han JH, Wilson A, Graves AJ, et al. Validation of the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit in older emergency department patients. Acad Emerg Med 2014;21(2):180–7. Han JH, Wilson A, Vasilevskis EE, ...
This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Robert Saper, is devoted to Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
EDITOR AARON J. SMILEY, DVM Chief of Staff Advisor, VetCor, Hingham, Massachusetts; Chief of Staff, Devonshire Veterinary Clinic, Anderson, Indiana; Veterinarian, Medici, Austin, Texas AUTHORS SHEA COX, DVM, CVPP, CHPV, RN BluePearl Pet ...