Clinical Manual of Palliative Care for Any Setting - Toward Universal Contextually-Adapted Access

Clinical Manual of Palliative Care for Any Setting is an easy-to-use manual aimed at helping medical doctors, clinical officers, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals to provide high-quality palliative care in any setting, including where healthcare resources are limited.

List of contents

• 1. Introduction: Why a manual of palliative care for the developing world?


• 2. Palliative care assessment


• 3. Pain assessment and relief


• 4. Assessment and relief of other physical, psychological, social and spiritual suffering


• 5. Palliative care for patients with specific conditions


• 6. Palliative care emergencies


• 7. Pediatric palliative care


• 8. Palliative care nursing


• 9. End of life care


• 10. Integration of palliative care into healthcare systems


• Annexes


• Index

About the author

Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD, is Director of the Program in Global Palliative Care and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He is also an Attending Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Honorary Chair, Department of Palliative Medicine, at the University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Product details

• Authors: Eric L Krakauer, Eric L. (Associate Professor Krakauer, Krakauer Eric L.
• Assisted by: Krakauer Eric L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2025
• EAN: 9780197755617
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775561-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Terminal Care, MEDICAL / Nursing / Palliative Care, MEDICAL / Home Care, Pain & pain management, Pain and pain management, Terminal care nursing, Paediatric medicine, Palliative Medicine, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine