Principles Of Palliative Care Medicine: Symptom Management, Communication, and Ethical Practice in Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care - Softcover

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Serious illness care demands more than diagnosis and treatment. It requires confident symptom control, honest communication, ethically sound decision-making, and the ability to support patients and families through the most vulnerable moments of life.
Principles of Palliative Care Medicine is a clinically grounded textbook for physicians, residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and healthcare professionals who care for people facing advanced, life-limiting, or complex chronic disease. Built around symptom management, communication, and ethical practice, it gives readers a structured approach to the real problems clinicians encounter at the bedside.
Inside this book, you will learn:

• How to assess pain, dyspnea, nausea, delirium, fatigue, anorexia, depression, anxiety, and other distressing symptoms using mechanism-based clinical reasoning.
• You will gain practical guidance on opioid pharmacology, opioid rotation, adjuvant analgesics, non-pharmacologic strategies, palliative sedation, and symptom management in cancer, organ failure, neurologic disease, geriatric care, pediatric care, and the intensive care unit.
• The book also helps you develop the communication skills needed for prognosis discussions, goals-of-care conversations, family meetings, advance care planning, grief support, and conflict resolution.
• Dedicated chapters address ethical and legal questions involving decision-making capacity, surrogate decision-making, withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, medical aid in dying, hospice transition, spiritual distress, and clinician wellbeing.

With clinical case scenarios, practical frameworks, quick-reference appendices, and a strong emphasis on evidence-informed care, this textbook helps you build the judgment, language, and clinical confidence required for humane, competent palliative care.
If you are preparing for advanced training, strengthening your clinical practice, or building a serious illness care reference shelf, this book offers a clear and compassionate foundation for palliative medicine.

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