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Essentials 4 book: Nonpain Symptom Management

This book emphasizes the use of symptom assessment tools and goal-oriented decision making with patients and families when treating nonpain symptoms. Symptoms covered include dyspnea, dysphagia, anorexia-cachexia, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, malignant bowel obstructions, delirium, and emergent conditions. The latest pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions for each symptom is covered.

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Upon completion of this self-study program the learner should be better able to

  • recognize the importance of using symptom assessment tools to ensure comprehensive data collection and objective comparison between patient encounters
  • assess and provide effective interventions for dyspnea, including
    • nonpharmacologic management of dyspnea
    • pharmacologic management of dyspnea
    • management of pulmonary congestion and secretions
    • refractory dyspnea and proportional palliative sedation
    • compassionate ventilator withdrawal
  • assess and provide effective interventions for dysphagia, including
    • nonpharmacologic management of dysphagia
    • pharmacologic management of dysphagia
    • surgical interventions for irreversible dysphagia
  • assess and provide effective interventions for anorexia-cachexia, including
    • treating reversible causes of anorexia-cachexia
    • pharmacologic management of anorexia-cachexia
    • role of artificial nutrition and hydration
  • assess and provide effective interventions for fatigue, including
    • nonpharmacologic management of fatigue
    • pharmacologic management of fatigue
  • assess and provide effective interventions for nausea and vomiting, including
    • pathophysiology and etiology of nausea and vomiting
    • nonpharmacologic management of nausea and vomiting
    • pharmacologic management of nausea and vomiting
    • alternative routes of medication delivery
  • assess and provide effective interventions for malignant bowel obstruction, including
    • managing constipation and fecal impaction
    • pharmacologic management of malignant bowel obstruction
    • procedural interventions for malignant bowel obstruction
  • assess and provide effective interventions for delirium, including
    • definition of etiology
    • reversing treatable causes of delirium
    • nonpharmacologic management of delirium
    • pharmacologic management of delirium
  • assess and provide effective interventions for emergent conditions, including
    • airway obstruction
    • cardiac tamponade
    • massive hemorrhage
    • hypercalcemia
    • pathologic fracture
    • spinal cord compression
    • seizures
    • superior vena cava syndrome
    • urinary retention.

Authors:
Jennifer Kapo, MD
Felicia Hui, MD
Ryan Giddings-Connolly, MD
Aleksander Shalshin, MD
Andrew Putnam, MD
Catherine Adams, MD PhD
Rebecca Sands, DO

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Ann T Thompson, NP Sep 12, 2018 Report Abuse
Very good content but ..way too expensive. ..strange size, as if you're trying to make it look bigger to make it worthy of the cost. Would appreciate a smaller book with smaller font size, something akin to the American Pain Society's Principles of Analgesic Use. ..glad you're moving away from the term UNIPAK--don't know what that's supposed to mean
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