商品簡介
This pocket guide outlines management of cancer-related pain and supportive care for patients with malignancy for the practicing oncologist. The guide begins by describing pain and cancer, including benign processes, classifying pain, including nociceptive and non nociceptive, psychogenic and acute v. chronic, methods of conducting a pain consultation, overview of pain medication types, opioid conversions, choosing medications the methadone option, choosing procedures, special situations such as bone metastases, postherptic neuralgia and pain crisis, palliative care and the oncologist's role, communication, symptom management, sedation in the imminently dying, suffering in the physician, guidelines in the care of the dying, and racial and cultural barriers to palliative care. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
