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The medical care of terminally ill patients / Robert E. Enck.

Title
The medical care of terminally ill patients / Robert E. Enck.
Author
Enck, Robert E.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description
xiv, 202 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The Johns Hopkins series in hematology/oncology
Uniform Title
Johns Hopkins series in hematology/oncology.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.
Contents
1. The Prognostication of Survival -- 2. General Symptoms of Dying Patients -- 3. Other Problems in Patients with Cancer -- 4. Other Problems in Patients with Nonmalignant Diseases -- 5. Palliative Surgery -- 6. An Overview of Pain Management -- 7. Opioids -- 8. Adjuvant Analgesic Drugs -- 9. Complications of Pharmacologic Therapy -- 10. Bone Pain -- 11. Surgery and Other Nonpharmacologic Interventions to Manage Pain -- 12. The Final Moments -- 13. Issues Concerning the Sustaining of Life.
ISBN
  • 0801846757 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 080184763X (pbk.)
LCCN
93020529
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries