Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of supportive care for the renal patient. An international group of contributors emphasise the continuum of palliative care from the time of diagnosis through to end-of-life care and the issues surrounding withdrawal of dialysis.
Trade ReviewThe editors are well renowed experts in the field and have brought together a very knowledgeable and experienced group of chapter authors. * Journal of Renal Nursing *
Table of ContentsIntroduction to ethical case analysis ; 1. Changing patterns of renal replacement therapy ; 2. The concept of supportive care for the renal patient ; 3. Planning a renal palliative care programme and its components ; 4. Advance care planning in patients with end-stage renal disease ; 5. What determines a good outcome?: the selection of patients for renal replacement therapy ; 6. Health-related quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease ; 7. Symptoms in renal disease: their epidemiology, assessment and management ; 8. Management of pain in renal failure ; 9. Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with advanced renal disease ; 10. Spiritual care of the renal patient ; 11. Support of the home dialysis patient ; 12. Initiation, withdrawal and withholding of dialysis: 12.1: Clinical ; 13. Conservative management of end-stage renal disease ; 14. End-stage renal disease in the older person ; 15. Death and end-of-life-care in advanced kidney disease
