Paediatric Oncology: Acute Nursing Care
The book addresses four modalities of treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant. Each of the four sections looks at specific areas including symptom management, complications, and late effects.\ \ \ "...examines the depth of current practices and advances in the nursing of a child with cancer...addresses chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant...with information boxes throughout."\
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The book addresses four modalities of treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant. Each of the four sections looks at specific areas including symptom management, complications, and late effects. Booknews A guide and course text for clinical nurses who are either in or thinking of entering the specialty, answering a dearth of purely practical texts in Britain and the US to complement the more theoretical texts that follow a more medical model. The arrangement is by modality: chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant, general surgery, and radiotherapy. Each section begins with a review of the principles or background, discusses patient care during various stages and procedures, and considers both short-term and long-term effects. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ContributorsAcknowledgementsPrefaceForewordIntroductionCh. 1Principles of chemotherapy3Ch. 2Administration of chemotherapy22Ch. 3Side effects of chemotherapy59Ch. 4Altered body image129Ch. 5Late effects of chemotherapy144Ch. 6Future trends154Ch. 7Background to the bone marrow transplant procedure173Ch. 8Preparation for transplant186Ch. 9Collection and infusion of bone marrow207Ch. 10The neutropenic phase213Ch. 11Complications of bone marrow transplant225Ch. 12The post-engraftment phase241Ch. 13Long term effects249Ch. 14Peripheral blood stem cell transplant257Ch. 15Further developments in bone marrow transplant265Ch. 16Staff support in bone marrow transplant269Ch. 17General surgery277Ch. 18Neurosurgery318Ch. 19Primary bone cancer in young people361Ch. 20The nature of radiotherapy395Ch. 21Administration of radiotherapy405Ch. 22Tumours and radiotherapy treatment423Ch. 23Acute and subacute side effects of radiotherapy433Ch. 24The role of radiotherapy in palliation463Ch. 25Late effects of radiotherapy471The future: what does it hold?503References - Section One509References - Section Two531References - Section Three541References - Section Four549Index567
\ BooknewsA guide and course text for clinical nurses who are either in or thinking of entering the specialty, answering a dearth of purely practical texts in Britain and the US to complement the more theoretical texts that follow a more medical model. The arrangement is by modality: chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant, general surgery, and radiotherapy. Each section begins with a review of the principles or background, discusses patient care during various stages and procedures, and considers both short-term and long-term effects. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
