Life care planning. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Michel Lacerte, Cloie B. Johnson.
• Other Names: Lacerte, Michel; Johnson, Cloie B
• Contents: Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Consulting Editor; Editors; Authors; Forthcoming Issues; Forthcoming Issues; Recent Issues; Life Care Planning; Life Care Planning; The Life Care Planning Process; Key points; Introduction; History; Transdisciplinary perspective; Definition; Training, education, and certification; Who prepares life care plans?; Descriptions of certification programs; Life care plan resources; Philosophic overview and basis; Ethical considerations; Process; Summary; The Person with a Spinal Cord Injury; Key points. Introduction: the anatomic injury determines dysfunction and life care plan designThe ASIA examination: determining spinal cord impairments; Patterns of impairment after SCI: spinal cord syndromes; Rehabilitation for patients with SCI: identification of problems and goals; Problem-oriented chart review: identification of needs and organization planning; Outpatient rehabilitation: heath maintenance and community adaptation; Life care planning: translating ongoing treatment into a community-based care plan; Potential complications: possible diagnoses associated with SCI. Conclusions: life care plans are dynamic guides that prevent complication and enable potentialThe components of the life care plan: spinal cord-specific content; Life Care Planning After Traumatic Brain Injury; Key points; Introduction; Medical contribution to the TBI life care plan; Life care plan domains relevant to TBI casework; Supporting recommendations with adequate science; Common faux pas in TBI life care plan casework; Caveats for reviewing TBI life care plans; Summary; Appendix 1 The Basic Tenets of Life Care Planning; Appendix 2 A Critical Physician Review of a Life Care Plan. The Person with Amputation and Their Life Care PlanKey points; Introduction; Patient issues; Future medical needs; Summary; Life Care Planning for the Child with Cerebral Palsy; Key points; Introduction; Summary; Considerations for Neuropathic Pain Conditions in Life Care Planning; Key points; Introduction; Gender differences; Diagnosis; Mechanisms of neuropathic pain; Pharmacologic management; Complementary and alternative medicine approaches; Rehabilitation medicine approaches; Implantable systems for neuropathic pain-spinal cord stimulators and pain pumps. Life care planning for patients with neuropathic painSummary; Vocational Rehabilitation Process and Work Life; Key points; Introduction; Vocational rehabilitation process; Medical foundation for vocational rehabilitation assessment; Vocational and rehabilitation assessment; Records review and rehabilitation interview; Labor market research and inquiry; Rehabilitation analysis and opinion formulation; Psychometric measurement; Future medical care needs; Transferable skills analysis; Employability and placeability; Wage earning capacity; Work-life participation.
• Publisher Details: London : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (419 pages)
• Subjects: 617.03; Life care planning; Medical rehabilitation; Orthopedics; MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General; Life care planning; Medical rehabilitation; Orthopedics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323186346; 0323186343
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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