Diet and nutrition in palliative care. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Victor R. Preedy.
• Other Names: Preedy, Victor R
• Contents: SETTING THE SCENE; Definition, goal, purposes ; V.R. Preedy; Enlightening the need for a specialized interest in food and nutrition in palliative care; Defining palliative, end of life and terminal care ; Religion faith and end-of-life decisions ; H-H Bulow; Pain control and sedation at the end of life ; N.J. Cherny; The Nurse and end-of-life decisions ; A. J. E. De Veer; Sedation in palliative care and its impact on nutrition ; K.C.P. Vissers ; CULTURAL ASPECTS; Nutrition in palliative care: Western perspectives ; M.P. Fuhrman ; Nutrition in palliative care: Japanese perspectives ; T. Morita; Nutritional support in palliative care: Chinese perspectives ; W.-Y. Hu; Cultural aspects of forgoing of tube feeding in dying American and Chinese patients ; S.M.C. Pang; GENERAL ASPECTS; Gastrointestinal side effects in tumor therapy: Implications for nutrition ; F. Mayer; Support for hydration at end of life ; R.L. Fainsinger; Palliative treatment of dysphagia ; C.P. Selinger; Artificial nutrition, advance directives and end of life in nursing homes ; C.A. Monturo; Home nutritional support in end of life ; S. Antoun; Preparing hospice families for home: diet and nutritional aspects ; K. A. Kehl; Fatigue in hospice cancer patients: what nutritional variables does it correlate with ; Y.-H. Lai; Hospice patients and help in mouth care and eating and drinking ; J.e. Munn ; Drugs and constipation in hospice patients ; D. Weschules ; CANCER; Vitamin deficiency in patients with terminal cancer ; D. J. Harrington; Total parenteral nutrition in life-limiting cancer ; A.P. Abernethy; Incurable cancers and home total parenteral nutrition; A. Jatoi; Nutritional aspects of palliative in head and neck cancer ; N.E. Goldstein; Nutrition and palliative care in End of Life Ovarian Cancer ; L.J. Herrinton; The relationship between nutrition and quality of life in palliative care of cancer ; C. Pichard; Nutrition and palliative total pharyngo-Iaryngo-esophagectomy ; T. Shinozaki; Nutrition and euteral stenting in palliative of cancer ; P. Fockens; DEMENTIA; Feeding in advanced dementia: a palliative approach ; A.E. Volandes ; Nutritional therapy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ; K. Kollewe ; OTHER CONDITIONS; Nutrition in the palliative care of surgical patients ; G.P. Dunn; Nutritional support in the vegetative state ; M. Luchetti; Nutrition and palliation in chronic wounds ; O.M. Alvarez; Nutritional support in the palliative care of adult BIV/AIDS patients ; D.J. Wantland; Nutrition and palliative care of children with BIV/AIDS ; A.J. De Baets; Antioxidants in palliative care and drug induced osteoporosis; S.N. Chavan; Nutrition and terminal renal failure ; J. Dotsch ; WITHHOLDING NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; Withholding nutritional support: what is the process ; M. Hynninen; Withholding nutritional support in the ICU ; M. Heaney; Comparisons of withholding support in Six European Countries ; H.M. Buiting
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 616.029; Palliative treatment; Nursing; Terminal care
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439819333; 1439819335
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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