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Zusatztext `This is a useful and stimulating book that takes our thinking about the meaning and management of delirium one step further. A worthy addition to the Palliative Care Service library.'IAHPC website Informationen zum Autor After graduating medical school at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Augusto Caraceni was board certified in Neurology and in Clinical Neurophysiology from the Università di Pavia. While training in pain therapy and in palliative care at the National Cancer Institute of Milan in 1986 he participated in the WHO program to test and disseminate the WHO ladder for cancer pain relief.Clinical fellow in Neurology and Palliative Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York in 1994, he served for many years as member of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Palliative Care and as Vice President of the European Association of Palliative Care. Editor of the Italian Journal of Palliative Care, his work has always emphasized the development of national and international research collaboration in palliative care, participating in the establishment of a European research network within EAPC and recently of the European Palliative Care Research Center (PRC) as Vice Chair. Klappentext This volume provides palliative care physicians, specialist nurses, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other health professionals with a clear account of how to recognise and treat delirium, the most common neuro-psychiatric complication encountered by patients in the terminal phase of illness. Zusammenfassung This volume provides palliative care physicians, specialist nurses, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other health professionals with a clear account of how to recognise and treat delirium, the most common neuro-psychiatric complication encountered by patients in the terminal phase of illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations 1: From history to present definitions 2: From history to present definitions 3: Epidemiology 4: Clinical phenomenology 5: Differential diagnosis 6: Frequent aetiologies 7: Delirium in special populations 8: Diagnostic assessment 9: Management 10: Family issues Appendices ...
