Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Pain
Chapter 2: Dyspnea
Chapter 3: Bowel Symptoms: Constipation, Diarrhea, and Obstruction
Chapter 4: Challenging Symptoms: Dry Mouth, Hiccups, Fevers, Pruritus, and Sleep Disorders
Chapter 5: Nausea and Vomiting
Chapter 6: Anxiety
Chapter 7: Delirium
Chapter 8: Depression and Suicide
Chapter 9: Palliative Emergencies
Chapter 10: Discontinuation of Life Sustaining Therapies
Chapter 11: Withdrawal of Cardiology Technology
Chapter 12: Withdrawal of Respiratory Technology
Chapter 13: Palliative Sedation
Chapter 14: Pediatric Palliative Care across the Continuum
Chapter 15: Palliative Care of the Geriatric Patient

About the Author

Constance Dahlin is the Director of Professional Practice for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Palliative Nurse Practitioner at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts.
Patrick J. Coyne is the Director of Palliative Care and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.
Betty R. Ferrell is a Professor and Director of Nursing Research and Education in the Department of Population Sciences at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California.

Reviews

"...interesting (and useful) chapters on the discontinuation of life-sustaining therapies, and the withdrawal of cardiac and respiratory technology." -- Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Newsletter