Neuro-Palliative Care: Interdisziplinäres Praxishandbuch zur palliativen Versorgung von Menschen mit neurologischen Erkrankungen, 2nd Edition (Original PDF from Publisher)

By Christoph Gerhard

The interdisciplinary practice manual for palliative care of people with neurological diseases

• offers a person-centred and resource-oriented perspective on patients and aims to promote and maintain their quality of life and sense at the end of life
• explains the basic understanding of palliative care in the context of the care of neurological patients
• Describes how symptoms of neurologically impaired people can be systematically recorded and treated specifically.
• Shows how team members can communicate with communication-impaired, confused and consciousness-impaired people
• presents concrete treatment options for agitation, delirium, fatigue, muscle tone, gastrointestinal and pulmonary symptoms as well as pain and sleep disorders.
• Shows neuro-palliative features of diseases of the muscles and peripheral nervous system as well as ALS, dementia, MS, muscle diseases, Parkinson's, stroke and (awake) comatose conditions.
• describes ethically difficult decision-making situations and shows ways to analyze and resolve them amicably.
• provides close references to practice with numerous case examples.

The 2nd Edition considers current AWMF guidelines from palliative care and neurology. The author offers new contributions on Advance Care Planning (ACP), death wish, suicide aid, and death fasting, as well as multisystem atrophies. Attached are additional ACP documentation sheets and a model for ethical case discussion (CRISIS).

Reviews Ingenious textbook on palliative medicine especially on the needs of neurological patients. Matthias Thöns, Amazon

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hogrefe AG (7 Oct. 2024)
• Language ‏ : ‎ German
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3456862709
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3456862705