What Is Palliative Radiotherapy?

Palliative medicine is a comprehensive comprehensive treatment and care for patients and their families who have terminal illness and have not responded to treatment. The goal of palliative medicine is to do its best to help end-stage patients and their families achieve the best quality of life. To achieve this goal by analgesic, control other symptoms, reduce psychological trauma, help patients solve certain social problems during survival.

Palliative medicine

Palliative medicine is a comprehensive comprehensive treatment and care for patients and their families who have terminal illness and have not responded to treatment. The goal of palliative medicine is to do its best to help end-stage patients and their families achieve the best quality of life. To achieve this goal by analgesic, control other symptoms, reduce psychological trauma, help patients solve certain social problems during survival.
Chinese name
Palliative medicine
Foreign name
Palliative medicine
Founded
year 1987
Author
Li Jinxiang
Category
Clinical discipline
Revise
year 2002
The incidence of malignant tumors is increasing year by year, and the overall cure rate is low under treatment. This means that most patients will eventually survive tumors after surgery, chemoradiotherapy, and other treatments. The pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, malnutrition, edema, and dyspnea caused by tumor survival will always be accompanied Affect the patients, causing great pain to their bodies and minds. Therefore, how to control these symptoms, alleviate the pain of patients, and improve their quality of life is a topic that oncologists must face. A new clinical discipline- palliative medicine was born.
year 2002

Basic information on palliative medicine

Title: Palliative Medicine
Palliative medicine
Book Number: 1083884
Publisher: People's Medical Publishing House
Price: 97.0
ISBN: 711706733
Author: Li Jinxiang
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Edition: 1
Folio: Small 16

Introduction to Palliative Medicine

Palliative medicine, as the youngest clinical branch of practice for doctors, is an active and holistic care for patients whose disease does not respond to radical treatment. The goal is to achieve the best possible quality of life for patients and their loved ones.
"Palliative Medicine" represents the editors' more than 30 years of clinical practice experience and the concept of international progress in the palliative treatment of end-stage malignant diseases. This book is written by Li Jinxiang, director of the WHO West China International Cooperative Center for Palliative Therapy and Robert Jeffrey Twain Klaus, Chairman of the WHO Palliative Medicine Convening Center and Director of the International Palliative Medicine Center at the University of Oxford, UK; The hospital's president and director of the Palliative Medicine Center, Miles Pilgrid Davis, served as the editor-in-chief, and Li Ping, the director of the Department of Radiotherapy, West China Hospital Cancer Center, Sichuan University, served as the deputy editor. The young scholar wrote and translated it into Chinese, which ensured the authoritativeness and inspiration of the book.
The entire book is about 1.2 million words, with six chapters or forty-two chapters. The first and second chapters introduce the concept, basic principles of palliative medicine, and socio-psychological care. The core content of the third chapter introduces the skills of clinical practice, the intervention measures for the treatment of advanced cancer pain and opioid analgesia, and the management of pain symptoms in various systems. The fourth article emphasizes palliative chemoradiotherapy for cancer pain relief, not cure cancer. The fifth chapter is palliative rehabilitation for end-stage patients with the goal of improving quality of life. The sixth chapter deals with the latest developments in palliative medicine in this century: 25 drugs in palliative medicine worldwide, end-stage remedy, psychiatric intervention for pain in AIDS patients, and principles of maintenance or withdrawal at the end of life.
Palliative Medicine provides a set of knowledge framework for life crisis intervention for symptomatic treatment of advanced cancer and end-stage malignancy. It is a clinician, internal medicine and community engaged in oncology, geriatrics, pain medicine, hospice care and nursing care A reference book for general practitioners to provide holistic palliative care for patients with end-stage disease. This book is suitable for both nurses and medical students in related disciplines to meet the needs of their clinical practice and to accept knowledge of new disciplines. [1]

Catalog of Palliative Medicine Books

First Introduction
Introduction to Palliative Medicine Medicine
Chapter I General Principles
Chapter 2 Palliative Care in Social Psychology
Chapter III Challenges Facing Palliative Medicine
Part III Symptoms for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter 1 Overview
Chapter II Pathophysiology of Cancer and Other End-Stage Pain
Chapter 3 Evaluation of Pain and Cancer Pain Syndrome
Chapter 4 Relieving Cancer Pain
Chapter 5 Opioid Analgesia Treatment for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter 6 Oral Morphine Treatment in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter VII Chronic Disability Pain: Treatments for Non-Opioid Analgesics
Chapter VIII Respiratory Symptoms
Chapter 9 Digestive System Symptoms and Diseases of Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter 10 Biochemical Syndrome
Chapter Eleven Urinary Symptoms
Chapter XII Blood System Symptoms
Chapter XIII Psychological Symptoms
Chapter XIV Nervous System Symptoms
Chapter 15 Skin Care for End-Stage Patients
Chapter 16 Lymphedema
Chapter 17 Therapeutic Emergencies
Chapter 18 Drug Overview
Part 4 Palliative Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter 1 Introduction to Palliative Radiotherapy
Chapter 2 The Monograph on Palliative and Pregnant Radiotherapy
Chapter 3 Palliative Chemotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter 5 Palliative Rehabilitation for Patients with Advanced Cancer and Non-Malignant End-Stage Disorders
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter 2 Palliative Physiotherapy
Chapter III Occupational Therapy
Chapter IV Management of Fistula
Chapter 5 Speech Therapy
Chapter 6 Music Therapy
Chapter VII Creative Art and Literature
Chapter VI Progress and Thinking of 21st Century Palliative Medicine
Chapter 1 When Palliative Care Is Best Available
Chapter 2 Maintenance or Withdrawal of Treatment at the End of Life
Chapter III Caring for Symptoms of Terminal Patients
Chapter 4 Anorexia and Cachexia
Chapter 5. Nausea and Vomiting in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chapter 6 Neutrophil Dermatosis
Chapter 7 Essential Medicines for Palliative Medicine
Chapter 8. Advances in opioids and dosage guidelines for palliative medicine
Chapter 9 Calmness and Sorrow at the End
Chapter 10 Psychiatry of Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Pain
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