Introducing Palliative Care

by Robert G. Twycross

Introducing Palliative Care (IPC5) is the ideal introductory text for training students in medicine and qualified healthcare professionals in the area of palliative care. The fifth edition covers the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland's recommended curriculum for medical undergraduates. It has much expanded sections on ethics, the law, children, symptom management and contains The Essential Palliative Care Formulary. Although medically oriented, there is much of use to undergraduates and graduates of other disciplines. The clinical focus is on advanced cancer but the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other incurable progressive life-threatening conditions.

Genres: Medical

190 pages, ebook

First published February 1, 1995

About the author

Robert Geoffrey Twycross was a British physician and writer. He was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s, when he helped palliative care gain recognition as an accepted field of modern medicine.

Reviews

[Nisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lent to me by the consultant physician whose team I shadowed for a week, it was my reading material through the attachment. The first two chapters were very helpful for me to gain a basic understanding of what palliative care really is, while the rest are still medical mumbo-jumbo to me now. Well, at least now I know the difference between opioids, NSAIDs, and adjuvants.

ps palliative means having the properties of a cloak.