Introducing Palliative Care (IPC5) is the ideal introductory text for training students in medicine and qualified healthcare professionals in the area of palliative care. The fifth edition covers the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland's recommended curriculum for medical undergraduates. It has much expanded sections on ethics, the law, children, symptom management and contains The Essential Palliative Care Formulary. Although medically oriented, there is much of use to undergraduates and graduates of other disciplines. The clinical focus is on advanced cancer but the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other incurable progressive life-threatening conditions.
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Introducing Palliative Care is a highly successful and well-established introductory text for palliative care. Over two decades, it has been used by medical students, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals in the UK and beyond. It has been translated into several other European languages, and a special economy edition has been available in Africa and India since 2003.This fifth edition (IPC5) sees a move from single authorship to a collaborative project between the palliativedrugs.com Editorial team and eight new contributors.IPC5 covers the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland’s recommended curriculum for medical undergraduates. It is thus a key resource for medical students, which will also serve them well as junior hospital doctors and beyond.IPC5 has much expanded sections on ethics, the law, children, symptom management and contains The Essential Palliative Care Formulary.Although medically oriented, there is much of use to undergraduates and graduates of other disciplines. The clinical focus is on advanced cancer but the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other incurable progressive life-threatening conditions.
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