Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Management for the Cancer Patien

Zusatztext The main contributors to this book are anaesthetists who have experience working at one of the major specialist cancer centres in the UK, the Royal Marsden. This gives rise to a credible and practical guide. There are very few sources within the literature addressing this expanding field and this book provides an excellent overview of perioperative care for cancer patients. Informationen zum Autor Paul Farquhar-Smith trained in anaesthesia, pain, and intensive care in Cambridge and London. He was awarded a PhD in Pain and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. His interests include sedation and delirium in intensive care, pain in cancer survivors such as chronic pain after surgery, and chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain.Tim Wigmore is clinical lead for intensive care medicine at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Trained in intensive care medicine in Australia, his interests include microbiology and care of the haemato-oncological patient in intensive care. Klappentext One in three people will develop some kind of cancer in their lifetime, and anaesthetists are likely to have a major involvement in the care of the cancer patient. This book comprises four main sections dealing with cancer, anaesthesia for cancer surgery, intensive care and pain management. Zusammenfassung One in three people will develop some kind of cancer in their lifetime, and anaesthetists are likely to have a major involvement in the care of the cancer patient. This book comprises four main sections dealing with cancer, anaesthesia for cancer surgery, intensive care and pain management.

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• Authors: Paul Farquhar-Smith, Paul/ Wigmore Farquhar-smith, Colm Irving, Tim Wigmore
• Assisted by: Paul Farquhar-Smith (Editor), Paul (Consultant in Pain Farquhar-Smith (Editor), Farquhar-Smith Paul (Editor), Colm Irving (Editor), Tim Wigmore (Editor), Tim (Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia Wigmore (Editor), Wigmore Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780199584642
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958464-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Critical Care, MEDICAL / Anesthesiology, Pain & pain management, Oncology, Pain and pain management, Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthetics, MEDICAL / Oncology / General, MEDICAL / Pain Management