"October 2019." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword: Palliative care -- With gratitude - Dedication: Honoring Balfour Michael Morgan Mount, OC, OQ, MD, FRCSC, LLD - the Father of North American Palliative Care -- Preface: The time is always right to do what is right for our patients -- Advantages and challenges of an interdisciplinary palliative care team approach to surgical care -- Concurrent palliative care for surgical patients -- Goals of care: understanding the outcomes that matter most -- Discussing prognosis and shared decision-making -- Perioperative advance directives: Do Not Resuscitate in the operating room -- Optimizing pain control during the opioid epidemic -- Ostomy management: a model of interdisciplinary care -- Palliative wound care: less is more -- Image-guided palliative interventions -- Palliative care and the pregnant surgical patient: epidemiology, ethics, and clinical guidance -- Tracheostomies and PEGs: when are they really indicated? -- Beyond the technical: determining real indications for vascular access and hemodialysis initiation in end-stage renal disease -- Postoperative recovery and survivorship after acute hospitalization for serious life-limiting illness -- Navigating the murky waters of hope, fear, and spiritual suffering: an expert co-captain's guide -- Transitioning to comfort-focused care at the end of life -- Mitigating burnout -- Surgical palliative care education.
Series:
Surgical clinics of North America, 0039-6109 ; Volume 99, Number 5
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