"Animals with life-limiting illnesses deserve compassionate, thoughtful, end-of-life care. Their caregivers and families, faced with the loss of a beloved companion, deserve empathy, support, and education, to guide them through an emotionally wrenching period and provide their companion animals with the highest possible quality of life. In recent years, the ethics of care and service to sick and dying animals and their caregivers has been the subject of considerable attention. Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals, 2nd edition provides a thorough update to the first and only complete guide to this field of service, its foundations, and its applications. It addresses the needs of pets, caregivers, and veterinary professionals alike, including fundamental ethical and emotional principles as well as detailed discussion of specific illnesses and life-limiting conditions. The expanded second edition incorporates cutting-edge research into animal behavior and cognition to enrich the reader's understanding of companion animals' emotional needs and their experience of illness and death. Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals is an indispensable resource for caregivers and veterinary professionals alike"--
Record details
ISBN:9781119808787 (pbk.)
Physical Description:xxiv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm print
Edition:Second edition.
Publisher:Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the companion website -- Part I : core concepts. Introduction -- What is animal hospice and palliative care? -- The interdisciplinary team -- Quality of life assessments -- Recognizing distress -- Balancing efficacy of treatments against burdens of care -- Ethical decision-making in animal hospice and palliative care -- Supportive relationships : veterinarians and animal hospice providers' nonmedical roles -- Management and administration : business models -- Part II : patient care. Cancers in dogs and cats -- Integrative therapies for palliative care of the veterinary cancer patient -- Chronic kidney disease -- Congestive heart failure -- Respiratory distress -- Gastrointestinal conditions -- Musculoskeletal disorders -- Nervous system disease -- Cognitive dysfunction -- Pharmacology interventions for symptom management -- Physical medicine and rehabilitation for hospice and palliative care patients -- Integrative medicine in animal hospice and palliative care -- Nursing care for seriously ill animals : art and techniques -- Comfort care during active dying -- Euthanasia in animal end-of-life care -- Part III : caregiver needs : providing support. Caregivers' emotional burden : understanding, acknowledging, and addressing caregivers' emotional burden -- Addressing spiritual needs of caregivers -- Factors contributing to the decision to euthanize pet dogs and cats -- Supporting other needs -- Aftercare -- Index.
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