Surgical palliative care
By: guest editor, Geoffrey P. Dunn.
Contributors: Dunn, Geoffrey P.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 85, no. 2
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Surgery; Palliative treatment; Hospice care
Notes: "April 2005."

Series title on spine: Surgical clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Surgical palliative care: an enduring framework for surgical care / Geoffrey P. Dunn; title: Preparation of the patient for palliative procedures / Edgar L. Ross and Janet Abrahm; title: Chronic pain management in the surgical patient / A. Reed Thompson and Jonathan J. Wolfe; title: Neuropathic pain: implications for the surgeon / Robert A. Milch; title: Common symptoms in advanced cancer / Ruth L. Lagman ... [et al.]; title: Spiritual issues in surgical palliative care / Daniel B. Hinshaw; title: Ethical issues in surgical palliative care: am I killing the patient by "letting him go"? / Timothy M. Pawlik and Steven A. Curley; title: Palliative care: good legal defense / K. Francis Lee.; title: Palliative care in the surgical ICU / Anne Charlotte Mosenthal; title: Surgical palliative care in thoracic diseases / Steven J. Mentzer; title: Surgical and radiosurgical management of brain metastases / Fred G. Barker II; title: Palliative care and orthopedics: what is on the horizon? / Dennis O. Sagini and Albert J. Aboulafia; title: Palliative therapy for pancreatic/biliary cancer  / Michael G. House and Michael A. Choti; title: Transplantation and palliative care: the convergence of two seemingly opposite realities / Ernesto P. Molmenti and Geoffrey P. Dunn; title: Educating surgeons for the new golden hours: honing the skills of palliative care / Joan L. Huffman.